Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increasing armaments, of shortening tempers-a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war. ... To say the least, there are grounds for pessimism. . . . "Nations seeking expansion, seeking the rectification of injustices springing from former wars or seeking outlets for trade, for population or even for their own peaceful contributions to the progress of civilization . . . have . . . impatiently reverted to the old belief in the law of the sword or to the fantastic conception that they, and they alone, are chosen to fulfill a mission and that all the others among the billion...
...Governor John E. Erickson of Montana got to the Senate that way only to have his constituents, apparently resentful of a "horse trade,'' retire him at the first chance. Besides, if Mr. Olson should resign to go to the Senate, his Lieutenant Governor Hjalmar Peterson would almost automatically become the Farmer-Labor candidate for Governor in 1936. What Governor Olson obviously needed was a Senator pro tern, someone who would take the job for a. year, then quit willingly and help elect Floyd Olson to the U. S. Senate. Who would be so likely to fill this bill...
...real disruptions will come in regard to measures that Franklin Roosevelt must set his hand against. Among eminent possibilities: the Townsend Plan; the Frazier-Lemke bill for paying off farm mortgages with $3,000,000 in greenbacks; attempts to alter or repeal the Reciprocal Trade Agreements...
Provisional President López Contreras made two shrewd moves to insure his own popularity, quiet the country. He announced that: 1) the Government would buy the nation's entire coffee crop for $7,800,000, trade it abroad for war munitions; 2) an elaborate public works program would be started with paid workers instead of the customary gangs of political prisoners...
...take it, with the fundamental principles which govern human affairs, as they concern the State and as they concern individuals. Political economy concerns itself as much with the behavior of man as a social animal as it does with any known laws of industry and trade and agriculture and finance. And when I speak of fundamental principles I do not mean old principles or new ones, or conservative principles any more than radical principles, but rather those principles which take into account the experiences of the past and are at the same time alive to the needs and aspirations...