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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador Andre Lefebvre de Laboulaye of France to his office. There they signed a document "done in duplicate, in the English and French languages, both authentic." The document was the first commercial treaty between the U. S. and France since 1778. It was also the 13th signed under the Trade Agreements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Champagne & Chassis | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Result. Unlike the trade treaty with Canada which evoked a frightful roar from U. S. producers (TIME, Nov. 25), the French treaty caused almost no stir at all. Few of the U. S. products on which France lowered the duty have serious competition from French agriculture and industry. U. S. producers of brandy, wines, perfumes, feather dusters and the like were not politically potent enough to make their small squawks heard in Washington. Last week both the U. S. and French publics seemed decidedly ready to exchange champagne for automobiles, Roquefort cheese for fountain pens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Champagne & Chassis | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...United Front underground organization includes about 75,000 Communists, 75,000 Revolutionary Socialists and 80,000 trade unionists. Wrecked by the Feb. 12, 1934 revolt, the Social Democratic Schutz-bund still has a fearless nucleus and lots of guns. Against these is a Nazi organization of 55,000, chiefly among farmers and students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictators Dissected | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Criticized by the American Medical Association, badgered by the Federal Food & Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission, heckled by Consumers' Research, rebuffed by self-respecting magazines and newspapers when the extravagant claims of occasional products verged on quackery, members of the Proprietary Association two years ago organ-ized an "advisory committee on advertising" to censor the commercial announcements of all its members. Hired as censor-in-chief was Edward H. Gardner, onetime professor of Advertising & Marketing at University of Wisconsin, more recently a pundit for J. Walter Thompson Co. During the year, Censor Gardner reported, drug manufacturers submitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Castoria & Friends | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...mortgagees: Mortgages are now a safer investment than at any time in the past 15 years. But: "If I owned mortgages today ... I would sell them or trade them for slim equities in small single-family homes or duplexes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pamphlet Boom | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

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