Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trade. Three months later President Wilson, outraged by British interference with U. S. commerce and by the British "blacklist" of U. S. firms accused of dealing with the Central Powers, wrote to his most intimate friend & adviser, Col. Edward Mandell House: "I am, I must admit, about at the end of my patience with Great Britain and the Allies. . . . I am seriously considering asking Congress to authorize me to prohibit loans and restrict exportations to the Allies. It is becoming clear to me that there lies latent in this policy the wish to prevent our merchants getting a foothold...
...Sept. 7, 1916 Congress authorized President Wilson to retaliate against the Allies. The President promptly asked his Secretary of Commerce, William C. Redfield, to report on the most practicable procedure. Secretary Redfield reported about a fortnight before the 1916 election: Interference with its Allied trade would mean economic ruin for the U. S. The plan was dropped...
...calling on Congressmen to advocate other proposals. One group wanted to take 30% of customs receipts to subsidize exports. Another group advocated guaranteeing farmers their cost of production. A third group demanded enactment of the domestic allotment plan; a fourth, export debentures, higher agricultural tariffs, repeal of the reciprocal trade treaty law; a fifth, dollar tinkering. Restive Congressmen declared that they were unwilling to vote for an AAA substitute that would be of doubtful constitutionality. Senator Norris mournfully declared that any law attempting to regulate agriculture would now be unconstitutional. The chairmen of the House and Senate agriculture committees indicated...
...their guest at Balmoral; and each year he received a crisp Buckingham Palace invitation to the Royal Garden Party. Therefore in Bermuda in 1930 the news that King George had appointed John Maseneld to be Poet Laureate smote hard. Exclaimed Rudyard Kipling: "Writing is an awful trade-I mean...
...schoolboys have ever heard of H. H. Richardson. If they have eyes to see, though, they cannot help being aware of the type of architecture he popularized; if they are schoolboys of taste they view it with alarm. No man was ever more betrayed by his imitators. What the trade knew as "Richardsonian Romanesque" are the banks, schools, churches, libraries, jails which still dot the land, built of the knobbiest of rough-cut masonry, with livid tile roofs, arched windows and a profusion of useless squat towers. What his admirers have never ceased to point out is that Richardson himself...