Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second important means of implementing American friendship is through trade agreements. Unquestionably, the scope of the present treaties can be almost indefinitely enlarged. It would, of course, be crass stupidity to overlook several obstacles in the path of adjustment, and certain concessions that the South American countries will have to make. Among these are the strong commercial ties existing between them and England and Japan, also, but to a lesser extent, Germany and France. On the political side, it would not do to forget the number of Latin American countries which have presidents in name but dictators in point...
...which the law depends. President Conant's plan for "university professors", men who have all knowledge for their province, should widen the horizons of departments which have tended to inbreed and have lost the perspective that a broad intellectual outlook gives. For the Law School is not only a trade school for lawyers, but also a temple of legal scholarship, and the relation between the law and other fields of human endeavor should not be lost sight...
...decried the fact that due to the strike foreign nations were making vast inroads in normally American trade, and asserted that the employees to whom he had spoken had no grievances against the ship owners but "had been intimidated into joining the strike...
...publication of criticism of the minister's policy, but the speed laws of today could scarcely be less effective for their purpose than were they for theirs. Since they could not suppress it, ministers were obliged to enter the fight. Political scribbling, though loudly despised as a prostituted trade, became almost respectable when great men set up their own journals to solicit the popular voice. Readers in the coffee-houses in 1723 may well have marveled to find Bishop Hoadly in "The London Journal" and the Duko of Wharton in "The True Briten" abusing each other. In the end Walpole...
...this point Napoleon invades Italy, and Anthony is packed off to Havana to wind up his grandfather's business. He discovers affairs in such a mess that he must go to Africa and trade in slaves in order to collect the Bonnyfeather debts. Several long, embittering years pass before Anthony can return to Europe. In the meanwhile old Bonnyfeather has died, and Napoleon has taken Anthony's wife as his mistress. Desepite attempts on his life by the Marquis, Anthony reaches Paris and discovers that he has a son. The movie ends as Anthony...