Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exchanging ambassadors and resuming diplomatic relation", he explained, "we should help to bring Russia back into the family of nations. In this way we could reestablish trade connections and could increase the friendly feeling between the two countries. But in the League of Nations, every question of any importance that has arisen has been settled by one of the five great nations, and the little fellows have never had a show. An ambassador in a foreign country is in intimate daily contact with the important men in the government, while a representative at a tribunal or conference is just...
Chicago is the railroad heart of the United States. The stream of trade which is the life of the nation circulates through this heart and is transmitted through the great arteries, or trunk lines, into the smaller capillaries. The seaboard cities like New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Boston may be likened to the lungs of this great body, for it is at these ports that the old blood is exchanged for new and sent back to the heart for distribution. Every throb of railroad policy that emanates from the heart is felt in all parts...
...Chief-Justice Taft, who become the first governor-general. Among the most recent have been W. Cameron Forbes and Major-General Wood, both governors-general. Under the leadership of these men the Islands have prospered, initial steps have been made in sanitation, in manufacturing, shipping, and in foreign trade, and the agricultural and mineral resources of the country have been put to profitable use. These men, too, are as well acquainted with conditions in the Islands as are the local partisans of independence; on the subject of complete freedom they are better qualified to speak than the Nacionalistas and Democrats...
...obliged to resign from these commissions when the Russian Empire collapsed in the spring of 1917, but was immediately employed by the United States Government for some 18 months in the War Trade Board...
...link between the United States and other countries has been made by the establishment of a World Court for the arbitration of trade disputes. Hitherto the only way of setting these disputes has been by legal means fraught with all sorts of trouble, expense, and delay. By this new method all the difficulties rising from differences in language and laws, the great distances involved, and the limitations of communication will be done away with and the disputes settled quickly, economically, and justly...