Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with some of the President's present economic advisers. The parting, however, was highly amicable. Mr. Berle cited his understanding with the President that when "certain work was got forward" he might go home. Last week's report was that this "certain work was an Anglo-American trade treaty...
...French Labor Boss is portly Léon Jouhaux whose General Confederation of Labor boasts 5,000,000 followers. It is a trade union setup separate from the Socialist or Communist parties who eagerly look to it for votes. Last week M. Jouhaux, visiting in the U. S., announced that so long as "repeal" of the 40-hour law is excluded and its "principle" maintained, French Labor will not attempt to bar modifications...
Meanwhile, it was reported last week that: 1) the Commissariats for Food, Machine Building and Purchases had been purged and given new heads; 2) the Commissariats for the Navy, Trade and Agriculture are soon due for purging; 3) ten officials of the Azerbaijan Agriculture Commissariat were executed for "plotting to overthrow the Soviet Government and sabotage animal husbandry...
...over business morals, FTC has disposed of twice as many com plaints as in the previous five years-and the commission has been rewarded for its vigilance: 1) the 1936 Robinson-Patman Act extended its jurisdiction over price discrimination; 2) the 1938 Wheeler-Lea amendment to the original Federal Trade Commission Act relieved it of the necessity of proving that unfair trade practices injured competitors and allowed the commission to go to court to obtain remedies; 3) this year the Government provided the commission with a new home...
...abroad in 1934, the U. S. spent $6,500,000. However ingeniously conceived, a similar program now would not only add a neat expense item to AAA's bulging budget but would almost certainly bring a squawk from Secretary of State Hull, champion of reciprocal trade treaties. In addition, subsidized U. S. wheat would have to compete in the world market against wheat subsidized this year by Canada, Poland and Rumania -with other overproducers expected to follow suit...