Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally AAA approved a resolution providing $150,000 for a Federal Trade Commission investigation of processors' profits -a scandal hunt which might do much to discourage suits to prevent the collection of processing taxes...
...homecoming colleagues, Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus had already landed in the U. S. And last week ahead of all of them in the study of President Roosevelt was Ambassador Jefferson Caffery who poured good news from Havana into the Presidential ear: Since the negotiation of the reciprocal trade agreement with Cuba (TIME, Sept. 3), business there had picked up, Cubans were pulling out of the Depression...
Sanity is the gold standard. Sanity is a balanced budget. Sanity is free trade. These verities the Queen and many of her subjects consider eternal. Judged by such verities, the Great Powers have gone insane, turning sound money into unsound, unbalancing budgets meant to be balanced, and shutting out cheap goods by tariffs, with the result that their own peoples have to pay more than they otherwise would for the necessities of life...
...sure way to rile an alumnus of Antioch College is to call his alma mater a trade school. Every Antioch student alternates work and study. For five to ten weeks he plugs at a liberal arts curriculum on the campus at Yellow Springs, Ohio. Then for an equal period he works in an office, store, factory, newspaper or at any job which appeals to him. Antioch's President Arthur Ernest Morgan (now on leave as chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority) thinks of the work periods as a preparation for a full life and a substitute for the farm chores...
...nothing but war. Japanese Consul Ken Tsurumi tried to strike an optimistic note: "I do not consider a U. S.-Japanese war inevitable." Glad when the assembly was over, the Japanese delegates wanted first to see the unemployed. Back on the campus they settled down to talk of foreign trade, Manchuria, Communism, dictatorship, missionaries...