Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador Page of March 5, 1917, which stated that ". . . I think that the pressure of this approaching crisis has gone beyond the ability of the Morgan financial agency for the British and French governments. Perhaps our going to war is the only way in which our present prominent trade position can be maintained and panic averted." Documents that explain why our Ambassador in London was placed in the position of extending that advice to our President, will be found in Report 944, part 6, of the Special Committee on Investigation of Muni tions Industry, U. S. Senate, issued June...
...Hull have patiently, persistently struggled to overcome: 1) Argentina's historic dominance by Great Britain, 2) Argentine fears of U. S. imperialism, 3) Argentine insistence that the U. S. lift its 1930 ban on imports of pampas beef, 4) Argentina's across-the-table system of bilateral trade, 5) Argentina's able, egotistic Foreign Minister, Saavedra Lamas...
Messrs. Roosevelt, Hull & Welles wanted a U. S.-Argentina reciprocal trade agreement. So, to shrewd, praise-loving Lamas, Franklin Roosevelt kowtowed with impressive pomp at Buenos Aires in 1936; at Lima...
...mother twelve years ago, Joe Yule married Dancer Leato Hullinger, kept his song-&-dance act going as long as vaudeville. Seven years ago he turned up for a two-week engagement as featured comic at the Follies Theatre, a Los Angeles burlesque house which caters to the sailor trade. He has been there ever since. Meanwhile, Mickey's mother had pushed Mickey into the films. A good friend of Mickey and his mother, nowadays "the old man" is often invited to swim and ride on their swank San Fernando Valley estate, occasionally takes his son to a prizefight...
...Census Bureau set out to measure him. Last week they reported the 'awful facts. In spite of the reducing corset which AAA pays him to wear, he has battened on bountiful crops, gobbled the rich cream of New Deal crop loans and, deprived of the exercise of foreign trade, grown more ugly and obese...