Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Democratic Chairman Farley appointed Joseph E. Davies, Wilsonian chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, to be vice-chairman and executive committee chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee. Washington wiseacres who believe that rich and regal Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton Davies would dearly love to become an Ambassador's lady conceded that her husband could not have picked a likelier apprenticeship...
Loudly hailing his reciprocal trade treaties as the biggest break yet in the "economic log jam", Secretary Hull displayed in Minneapolis last week a naive and childlike conception of the havoc which Roosevelt policies have brought to our foreign trade. The combined effects of AAA crop reduction and the reciprocal agreements have closed foreign markets to many of our vital crops like cotton, and at the same time opened the gates wide for the importation from abroad of products much better produced at home. Clearly a policy which calls for slaughtering cattle in the north-west and then importing more...
...bettering conditions go, Mr. Hull's statistics knock the props from his contention that the treaties revived world trade, admitting that only $13,000,000 worth of last years increase is due directly to the agreements...
...goods is typical of the muddle-headed thinking that pervades every nook and cranny of the New Deal. And for the promotion of peace, a cause which goes hand in hand with reciprocal treaties in the Secretary's mind, one should bear in mind that all the free trade leanings of the last Democratic administration with its Underwood tariff schedules, did not suffice to keep the country out of the most disastrous war in world history. Altogether, Mr. Hull has claimed the moon for his pet policy, and, as is always the case under the New Deal, the American public...
...Illinois soybean farmers trade so much of their crop in kind to paint makers that last year one out of every ten barns in the state was coated with soybean paint...