Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next day, Senator James Byrnes of South Carolina hatched a handy little plan which even arch-isolationists were said to have approved and which the State Department immediately endorsed. "Within the next few days," said Senator Byrnes, the State Department would open negotiations for barter trade with Great Britain, Holland, and Belgium, swapping raw materials such as U. S. surplus cotton (TIME, April 10) to lay in "emergency stocks" of strategic materials (rubber, tin) in which those nations hold the world monopoly...
Last week the theory that a pun can be the highest form of propaganda was again tried out on the U. S. people. A little-known but potent organization called the Council of State Governments adopted and broadcast Balkanization. Intent: to convey the idea that trade fences erected by & between the 48 hitherto United States are becoming as dangerous to U. S. economy as Balkan feuds have long been to the life of Europe...
...rostrum for three days of earnest punning at Chicago's Stevens Hotel was a national Conference on Interstate Trade Barriers. At the Council's instance, seven Governors and the representatives of 37 States dabbled in Constitutional history, gazed gravely at charts depicting some of the most astonishing phenomena of current life in the U. S. Among facts related, deplored...
Five men not named yesterday will attend Table 3, International Trade, the committee reports. They are Joseph Green, Chief of the Division of Controls, Department of State; Leslie Wheeler, Chief of the Division of Foreign Agriculture; E. McE. Earle of the Institute of Advanced Study; Ray Stevens, Chairman of the Tariff Commission; and Percy Bidwell, Research Professor in the Council of Foreign Relations...
...Brazilian Consul stresses the important trade, cultural, and physical relationship between the two New World countries. "Need for arousing the bends of New World Brotherhood was never more imperative than in this era of totalitarian governments...