Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill's prime new feature, down for a two-year try out, is its provision for putting all trade with nations at war on a "cash & carry" basis, i.e., requiring the purchaser to collect and pay for goods in U.S. ports. There the Administration, by packing the conference committee and by getting the report delayed until there was small time left for debate, pulled the teeth of the bill as it was passed by the Senate two months ago (TIME, March 15). Prodded by its four peace-at-any-price men-Nye, Clark, Vandenberg and Bone -the Senate voted...
...privileged to enjoy annual salaries or monthly remittances from the family, sometimes forget that the man who earns his living by his trade and the sweat of his body as a rule is paid only when he works, and he gets almost as hungry during December and January as he does in July and August. So do his wife and children...
Professor Wild, speaking over the Colonial network, criticized sharply the new legislation as a peace-maintaining factor. Weighing the efforts of Congress to keep this country out of war, he said: "A simple reiteration of the legal fact that Americans travel and trade in wartime at their own risk that the government will not give them blanket protection in whatever they undertake, and the direction of energy into prevention of war now instead of this naive effort to keep us unentangled by a hodge-podge of embargoes and prohibitions these steps would be far more effective...
...Heinrich Bruening for the coming year, and he will be able to give much more to the University than the mere prestige of his name. Although he is well known the world over for his political activities, he also is an eminent scholar, having studied the economics of trade for many years. This combination of research and theoretical knowledge, with years of practical experience in government service, has given him a breadth of knowledge and realistic understanding of world problems that can hardly be surpassed...
Rounding out the program, current attractions of the Metropolitan Theatre stage show, featured by Fuzzy Knight and the Trade Twins, performed their various acts. Neal O'Hara, Boston Traveler feature writer, commented upon the trials of the humorist...