Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night Mr. King had a long session before the same hearth where the Canadian trade agreement had its genesis, slept in a White House bed. Next morning he returned to his Legation in silence. He might have made no more than a social visit, but not an observer in Washington believed it. Too many coincidences were involved...
...years ago Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada paid a social visit at the White House, for no ostensible reason except friendship. The prompt upshot was the U. S.-Canadian reciprocal trade agreement. Last week, on the eve of another visit by Mr. King, the press asked President Roosevelt what he and the Prime Minister expected to discuss. Was it by any chance a new St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty? The President waved this suggestion aside. The subjects of discussion, he declared expansively, would include ''North, Central and South America and the world in general...
...Democratic Administration and the Congress made a gallant, sincere effort to raise wages, to reduce hours, to abolish child labor, to eliminate unfair trade practices...
...that the U. S. had fought in the World War not to make the world safe for democracy but to save the frog-skins of its merchants and moneylenders, then the gloriously sure and simple way for it to stay out of the next one was to keep its trade and money at home when the fighting began. Steamed up by the Millis book and FORTUNE'S "Arms and the Men" (munitions-makers), the Senate peacemen got their start on the crest of the Italo-Ethiopian war scare. Whooped through Congress was a temporary resolution banning sale...
...ever. Up for debate in the Senate came a bill, introduced by Foreign Relations Chairman Key Pittman of Nevada, to make present safeguards permanent. To keep U. S. ships from being sunk, U. S.-owned goods from being seized or destroyed, Senator Pittman further proposed to put all wartime trade with belligerents on a cash & carry basis. As soon as the President proclaimed the existence of a foreign war, no goods consigned to belligerents could leave U. S. ports until the buyers had acquired full title to them. At his discretion the President could name war-useful materials other than...