Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cited "a recent Gallup Poll," "innumerable resolutions of trade associations," "bankers' groups," "newspaper editorials...
...which last year's bill was attacked and simply left most of them out this time. He gave the President power to alter the setup of all executive agencies-except certain ones, specifically listed. (Important exceptions in the bill as passed by the Senate: Civil Service, Communications, Power, Trade, Interstate Commerce, Securities & Exchange, Employes' Compensation, Maritime, Tariff Commissions, Army Engineers Corps, Coast Guard, NLRB, Board of Tax Appeals, Federal Reserve Board, FDIC, Veterans' Administration. Most important: the Comptroller General's office, whose functions of o.k.-ing expenditures beforehand and auditing them afterward the President last year...
Under the "heavy pressure of circumstances" the Kingdom of Rumania last week signed a trade treaty with the Third Reich which, in effect, converted Rumania from an independent nation to a German dependency. In no instance of modern times has one State made such humiliating, far-reaching economic concessions to another as Rumania's King Carol II made in Bucharest last week to Dr. Helmuth Wohlthat, Führer Hitler's traveling salesman...
...Cabinet itself was split by the issue. Lord Halifax, Minister of Health Walter Elliot, President of the Board of Education Earl De La Warr and Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, were for no more appeasement. But Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, the two most influential Cabinet members outside of Mr. Chamberlain, were in favor of taking it easy and doing nothing. Sir John's appeasement of aggressors began in 1932 when, as Foreign Secretary, he virtually welcomed Japan's invasion of Manchuria-much to the chagrin...
...hours earlier the British Government rejected proposals that it join the United States in economic reprisals against "disturbers of the peace" or at least punish Germany by means of a trade boycott...