Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...save these island industries from extinction at least until the Independence year of 1946. As an original sponsor of Philippine Independence, Maryland's unpurged Millard Tydings had talked it over with Franklin Roosevelt, agreed with him that the islands could not stand too sudden a shift from free trade with...
...friendly, fight somebody else when they seem most at odds. If the new agreement is signed in an atmosphere of overwhelming suspicion, it will be no new thing in Anglo-Russian relations. When both were in monarchic Holy Alliance, they intrigued against each other, sabotaged each other's trade, angled for republican U. S. support. When Tsar Nicholas I proposed that they divide up Turkey in the middle of the last century, England fought Russia as Turkey's ally in the Crimean...
...though normal diplomatic forms have long been observed, trade agreements negotiated, the two countries have had fewer cultural relations than the U. S. and Russia. Strictly according to precedent were last week's negotiations: upsets, reversals of policy, war and the threat of war, aid to each other's enemies, suspicion, distrust and downright hatred culminating in iron-clad alliances have marked British-Russian relations for more than a century...
...night before in Winnipeg, Governor Stassen had addressed 400 guests at a civic reception in his honor. Subject: good will. That morning he had addressed 135 members of the Winnipeg Board of Trade at a good-will breakfast. The Governor's plump wife had spent several hours dressing for her presentation to the King and Queen. The Governor had donned his cutaway and striped trousers, plastered down his bright red hair...
Longest and liveliest part of the story tells of Glenn's shattering experiences as a Red trade-union organizer in a Southern coal strike (resembling that of Harlan County in 1931). When two deputies are shot, mass arrests hit both the Red union and its rival. Glenn, who is nearly killed by vigilantes, urges a united-front defense. But Comrade Silverstone, of Manhattan, sneers: "There's too much of the artist in you, Sandy." Silverstone says they will take care of their own comrades, let the others, who are "politically undeveloped," take care of themselves. Their own comrades...