Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of war, tempting trade opportunities may be offered to our people to supply materials which would prolong the war. I do not believe that the American people will wish for abnormal, increased profits that temporarily might be secured by greatly extending our trade in such materials; nor would they wish the struggles on the battlefield to be prolonged because of profits accruing to a comparatively small number of American citizens...
Secretary of State Hull: Our foreign trade policy . . . has been a noble one -in the tradition of simon-pure old-fashioned Southern democracy. It has been conducted by a dependable gentleman of the old school, so stately, intelligent, kindly, honorable, and yet so firm . . . that it is hard to suggest that, in the circumstances, there might have been a better choice than Cordell Hull. . . . But in these hard-bitten days we needed a realist. . . . We had two outstanding Democratic world figures who answered that description-Bernard Baruch and Owen Young. ... On the economic side, our foreign policy is a failure...
...those three countries wished to sell goods in the country which was being blockaded, unless they advised their subjects that they were not to trade with that country, with every shipload of goods they sent there would be a real risk of war with that country...
...have long since come to the conclusion that you must rule out the spring and summer months because of financial business. You must rule out August and September because of the holidays. You are left autumn, but in no circumstances must you run into any interference with Christmas trade...
...encrusted silver in various places, finally brought it to Manhattan, put it in the window of their Fifth Avenue ticket office. Sweet to French hearts as the ceremony would have been if held in France, sweeter still was the prospect of publicity in Manhattan where most transatlantic tourist trade originates. From England therefore, the Normandie brought Donor Hales, his capacious wife, the Duke, and sleek Gualtiero Fedrigoni, Italian Line manager in London. Delayed at the dock because he forgot to fill out a custom's declaration, Mr. & Mrs. Hales finally hustled off to the Waldorf-Astoria for the night...