Word: trades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even after the British were defeated, there were still tens of thousands of British sympathizers left along the Eastern Seaboard. And they were still around three decades later when the U.S. indignantly went to war to put an end to Britain's interference with U.S. trade with France, to stop the British navy from kidnaping American sailors and forcing them to serve in the war against Napoleon...
...They were overwhelmingly hostile to the Southern and Western leaders anxious to retaliate against Britain by marching on Canada. New Englanders not only refused to subscribe heavily to President Madison's war loans, but they invested freely in Britain. They were attracted by the war slogan "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights"-only they forgot about the sailors and concentrated on trade. Thousands of tons of provisions that Britain needed to support Wellington's army were shipped by American merchants in American bottoms from American ports...
...even opened. As a price for joining "the Grand Coalition," the Social Democratic Party insisted on a conciliatory foreign policy that aimed not only at working for German reunification but also at improving relations with the entire Soviet bloc. Bonn has recently offered East Germany the prospect of more trade, large development loans and official talks at the sub-Cabinet level about easing travel and communications restrictions that now exist between the two countries. But it has not found the East German regime at all receptive. In fact, Willi Stoph recently replied to an earlier Kiesinger letter with a return...
...Parliament will still be chosen personally by el Caudillo. Two weeks ago, Franco stopped off in Madrid from a summer holiday in Galicia, announced his choices, then left again for some hunting in Andalucia. An other 394 members of Parliament will be picked by Spain's municipal councilmen, trade unions, Falange, and professional and cultural organizations. The big change will come in the selection of the remaining 104 members. They will be popularly elected by Spain's family heads and married women over 21, representing half of Spain's 32 million people. Two representatives will be chosen...
...always keeping in mind the people of Cedar Rapids," he avoids the kind of blatant plugging and inside show-biz patter plaguing the late-night talkathons. As a result, his viewers consider him one of them, a kind of homespun hippie who can parry with Stokely Carmichael or trade one-liners with Jack E. Leonard. Though the caliber of guests only occasionally rises to a Bob Hope, it is also true that Douglas' program has become a profitable showcase for new talent. The producers boast that Comic Bill Cosby got his first national TV break on the show...