Word: traded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guam was acquired by the U. S. in 1898 as part of its Spanish conquest. With the liberation of the Philippine Commonwealth, it will become the easternmost U. S. possession, 3,300 mi. beyond Hawaii, only 1,500 mi. from Manila. Regardless of the Philippines' status as a trade protectorate (which Franklin Roosevelt has recommended extending beyond 1946 to 1960), the Navy has pictured Guam, with its potentially fine harbor of Apra, as a likely Pacific outpost. If heavily fortified it would move the U. S. first line of Pacific defense just that much farther away from...
...residence abroad. Laborite Frederick J. Bellenger called it an "insult to public opinion." Laborite Albert V. Alexander pointed out scornfully that the General saves income taxes by living abroad. Joining the attack was Colonel Sir Joseph Nail, Conservative. Defending Sir Reginald was Oliver Stanley, president of the Board of Trade. Sir Reginald flew to London, denied he intended to resign, with military gruffness termed the M.P.s' attack "a lot of idle chatter. More like village gossip. Pity they haven't anything better...
...related to the Oxford Movement of a century ago. Until lately, however, none of the Group's critics was able to do anything about this flourishing misrepresentation. Then Dr. Buchman himself stuck his neck out of his well-tailored shell. In London he applied to the Board of Trade for incorporation of the Oxford Group...
...Humorist A. P. Herbert, urged the Government to deny incorporation under that name, since the "natural inference" that the Group is related to the University "is not justified by the facts." Finally, without making it public, the University's governing body lodged a protest with the Board of Trade-which announced that all the protests were being considered. Dr. Buchman drew his neck in again, said nothing...
Part of this rosy picture has been due to a midwinter anthracite boom, and in Scranton, 19 miles away, retail trade has been a little better than in Wilkes-Barre. But this was pretty cold comfort to U. S. newspaper publishers, whose associations remained discreetly silent on the matter last week...