Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House last week, the President dealt with the gravest European crisis since 1917 through the Department of State. To Adolf Hitler's annexation of Austria, the President's only public reference was an indirect one at a press conference. Asked whether he had signed the Czechoslovakian Trade Treaty, in which Austria is mentioned on the list of most favored nations, the President said he had signed it, and that legally-if there was such a thing as international law-he had not at the time been officially informed by Austria that it had ceased to exist...
Austria owed the U. S. some $25,000,000, enjoyed most-favored-nation trade status. Since problems presented by debts, tariffs, immigration, consular service will henceforth have to be settled through Berlin, it was obviously impossible for Secretary Hull not to recognize the annexation. Two days after Mr. Prochnik's visit, Mr. Hull announced with diplomatic prolixity that "the events pertaining to the changes which have taken place in the status of the Austrian Republic will necessitate, on the part of the Government of the United States, a number of technical steps, which are now being given appropriate consideration...
...purposes of economy and efficiency, the President could coordinate, reorganize or segregate any of the 100-odd Government agencies which he found superfluous, badly integrated or overlapping. This did not include quasi-judicial bodies like the Board of Tax Appeals, Federal Trade Commission, National Labor Relations Board, as the Brownlow Committee had originally suggested. Though he could reshuffle agencies, the President could not create any new ones unless they were to serve functions already authorized by Congress. Changes could be voted down by Congress within a 60-day limit, but if Congress disapproved, a Presidential veto of the disapproval could...
Nearly a decade ago a New Yorker cartoon by Carl Rose showed a mother urging broccoli on an emancipated child whose response became immortal: "I say it's spinach-and I say to hell with it." To designers, spinach is not only a humble green but a trade word for any superfluous decoration. From these two sources came the fitting title of a book published this week by Manhattan's No. 1 dress designer, petite, smart, feline Elizabeth Hawes.* To Designer Hawes, "fashion" is superfluous decoration. In the process of telling how she shrugged it off she gives...
Second session: Economic Nationalism vs. international trade and compatabilty with peace...