Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Does the U. S. really need a merchant marine? Of all the arguments ever advanced for a subsidized fleet, the Commission found only two that were sound-the importance of shipping to foreign trade and to National defense. Today the U. S. is the world's greatest exporting nation, about 10% of the country's movable production going overseas. In imports it ranks second only to the United Kingdom. Without its own ships the U. S. might be left stranded, as it was during the War, when foreign bottoms virtually disappeared from trade routes outside the War Zone...
Quinine & Free Trade. Although Kaiser Wilhelm II made a great show of himself as The All-Highest War Lord, historians generally consider Albert of the Belgians the only King who during the War actually directed his armies on the Western Front. To Marshal Joffre years afterward, His Majesty confessed that the expert jargon of strategists and tacticians. had sometimes proved trying. "I listened to the generals and it seemed to me a great responsibility to decide between their different plans," said King Albert, "so I would just pick out the one that I thought made the most sense." Aged only...
...chief executive and chief judiciary officer for first honors. Promptly the American Newspaper Guild protested to the President, asked him to reconsider his affiliation with the Society, "that the dignity of his office may not be abused to lend prestige to any movement hostile to the interests of legitimate trade unionism." A similar resolution was dispatched to the Chief Justice, the leftist Guild being entirely willing to let the Society keep Herbert Hoover...
...much of the New Deal does Lippmann's liberalism invalidate? It does not invalidate the S.E.C., the undistributed profits tax, the "death sentence" for Holding Companies, the C.C.C., the Social Security Board, P.W.A. or T.V.A. It adds to the powers of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Trade Commission...
...earlier work Morley Callaghan gave promise of being a sharply sensitive realist. Perhaps it is the haze of his native Toronto, perhaps it is only the gentling-down that many a prancing Pegasus goes through as it is broken to the book trade, but he seems now to be turning into a mystically misty romantic. Since undertones of the realistic approach remain, the result is, at times, confusing...