Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Least inclined of all to ''shoot Santa Claus" were the Canadian Government of Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King who have been in mortal fear lest Alf Landon in the White House might crimp the Canadian-U.S. Trade Treaty. This treaty has proved one of the most potent forces in spurring Canadian recovery and the New York Times's Ottawa correspondent wired that its rupture would be "a dagger-thrust for the present Canadian Government...
...those colleges which exist under the guise of educational institutions and are really trade schools, to those hard-headed men who believe that the empirical sciences are the backbone of the age and culture a luxury only for the wealthy, Robert Maynard Hutchins issues a poignant challenge. He has written so logical and convincing an analysis of the content and purpose of education that we find it practically impossible to refute any of his principal convictions...
...bringing together of important figures in governmental, academic and business life to discuss problems of particularly pertinent interest. By and large it represented a study of that great structure known as government, that bridge between society and the individual. The subjects there represented included foreign trade, agriculture, banking, social security, government and industry, and associated topics...
...encouraging signs that the new program will differ from the N.R.A. in being less arbitrary and more in line with traditional principles of careful consideration and democratic administration. The proposals already made by members of Major Berry's Council provide for an administrative tribunal, similar to the existing Federal Trade Commission, in place of the haphazard and ill-considered promulgation of codes under the reign of General Johnson. Most of the objections to the N.R.A. came not because of the provisions for minimum wages and maximum hours but because of the intolerable state of affairs brought on by a "government...
...face of enormous publicity in behalf of modern style, emanating from glass, plumbing and building supply companies, from the architectural profession and its trade papers, from Hollywood in the form of a constant procession of modern cinema sets, the citizens of New York State plumped for Colonial. Only 11% expressed any desire for Modern...