Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night Scholar Somoza became proficient at accounting. Last week he could authoritatively state that his country needs only about $9,000,000 from the U. S. to build improvements and, to improve her trade with the U. S., an arrangement like the one wangled for Brazil in March by Foreign Minister Aranha. In addition, Dictator Somoza discussed with Franklin Roosevelt, whose guests* he and Señora Somoza were their first night in Washington, his new constitution (now formally blessed by the U. S.), the canal Nicaragua wants the U. S. to pay for across her.t and hemisphere solidarity...
...reports that the Nazi-Fascist military pact might soon become a tripower one appeared to some observers to have been strengthened by disclosure today that Hitler and Franco have agreed to negotiate an important trade agreement by which Germany hopes to attain a predominant economic position in reconstructed Spain...
...military occupation of China, I believe our major task is about completed.* It is probable that we will not maintain a very large army there. Normal trade will be resumed as soon as the military operations . . . are concluded...
Although his grandfather migrated to Missouri some 100 years ago, Publisher Griffin is a professional Irishman. Nine months of the year he is a loyal Tammany man; in summer he usually goes to Ireland and makes speeches on trade, which the Hearstpapers dutifully report. What Ireland needs most, after independence, William Griffin thinks, is a chain of modern hotels. Occasionally Publisher Griffin starts a movement to draft William Griffin for mayor (1937) or Senator...
...patrician estate of socialite J. W. Y. Martin outside Baltimore, last week hawkers peddled rubber horses, balloons, trinkets. Three-card monte games flourished on the lawn in front of the pink colonial mansion. Bookmakers Saratoga Joe, Honest Dan and three-score of their colleagues, forbidden to ply their trade this year, milled around in the crowd, furtively held up their odds on inconspicuous little pasteboard cards. It was the day of the Maryland Hunt Cup race and 15,000 of the Eastern Seaboard's horsy folk, arriving by train, plane, auto and old-fashioned buggy, gathered to witness...