Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmer. When Republicans did not solve the farm problem according to his lights, George Peek became a Democrat. As a Democrat he became head of the AAA. As head of the AAA he quarreled with Braintrusters over the agricultural codes, finally resigned. President Roosevelt made him special foreign trade adviser and head of the Export-Import Banks. Then came the reciprocal trade treaties, which George Peek thought Secretary Hull was mishandling. So he quit the Democrats for good. Last week he completed the cycle, announced, after twice publicly postponing his selection, that the man who would give the farmers...
...Government assistance in disposing of surpluses in foreign trade through selective bargaining...
Whereas Mr. Baldwin has been pleasantly vague about World economic recovery by the lifting of trade barriers some day, Mr. Chamberlain declared : "All indications are that we have left free trade behind forever, or until the whole world agrees to abolish tariffs on imports, which comes to pretty much the same thing...
...came just before two epochal events. Suddenly the tariffs and quotas of France were slashed, and this was followed even more unexpectedly by Benito Mussolini with similar action on behalf of Italy (see p. 24). Overnight on the international scene new life was breathed into the principle of Free Trade, and there was a wild scramble by His Majesty's Government to readjust their ideas and Mr. Chamberlain's. To Geneva this week hurried the Chancellor's most distinguished subordinate, Mr. William Shepherd ("Shakespeare") Morrison. In the only speech to the current League Assembly which...
...talked about downing them. Acting instead of talking this week, Leon Blum slashed French tariffs more deeply than has been done in any country since the War and at the same time swept away more than 100 of the even more vexatious import quotas which have long blocked much trade with France. Blum decree was complex and selective, but in general French tariffs were lowered 15% on manufactured articles,17 1/2% on semi-finished goods, and 20%, on raw-stuffs...