Word: traded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salute and exhibition drill from the Third Cavalry and 16th Field Artillery, he was guest of honor at a 35-place luncheon at the White House where the President wore morning clothes, then at an elaborate State Department dinner given by Secretary Cordell Hull who undoubtedly wishes that modern trade treaties could be as simply negotiated as they were in 1833. Next day, flanked by an aide-de-campand a secretary who looked like a tar-brushed Groucho Marx, the Sultan held a press conference. Overwhelmingly discreet, his reply to almost every question-including inquiries...
...Maverick, who thinks that TVA may have sold too much power to private companies and too little directly to consumers, introduced a resolution calling for a joint House & Senate investigation as Mr. Morgan proposed. George Norris insisted that the investigation be kept out of Congress, referred to the Federal Trade Commission, but FTC members gave him scant encouragement. To the Senate's anti-Administration bloc, even the remotest prospect of uncovering a Roosevelt Teapot Dome was so exciting that Utah's Democratic King and New Hampshire's Republican Bridges hastened to introduce a resolution calling...
...case a strike is about to be called, a plebiscite on the issue must first be held among workers in the plant concerned, by secret ballot. Coercion by trade union leaders or employers is thus theoretically held at arm's length. The Premier believes that this will result in the workers themselves democratically blocking hundreds of incipient strikes...
...death hung over the distinguished Russian diplomat who welcomed him on his arrival (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937), and presented him to Soviet President Mihail Kalinin in the Kremlin, Nikolai Krestinsky, who in Washington terms would be the right-hand man of Secretary Hull. Death also hung over former Foreign Trade Commissar Rozengolts who had dined with Ambassador & Mrs. Davies and entertained them at his own country place, a magnificent dacha almost as splendiferous as the former Galitsin Palace which today is Stalin's dacha (TIME...
...losing fight against Government regula-ions-wrongly, according to some, gallantly according to all. Yet the curt Stock Exchange announcement declared last week that there was "evidence" that this Groton-bred Harvard man's company had been guilty of "conduct apparently contrary to just and equitable principles of trade." The Street promptly cracked in its usual savage humor that "Snow White had become a Dwarf...