Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convention floor over a resolution which indirectly endorsed Tom Dewey (it said that Governor Dewey had never said anything bad about the U.M.W.). The resolution passed, but the mild resentment caused the geyser to erupt again. Lewis steamily trumpeted: "If there is any man who wants to trade me off for a Truman, let him trade and be damned...
Obviously, it required exact and uniform standards of measurement. Lack of standard measurements messed up the trade between the American colonies; though the U.S. Constitution directed Congress to fix the standards of weights & measures, Congress did nothing about it for 80 years. Congressmen were passionately interested in the subject, but they could not agree. Repeatedly Washington begged Congress to pass a standardization law; in 1795 he suggested that the U.S. adopt the new French metric system. Jefferson thought he had a better idea: he wanted a system based on the length of a uniform cylindrical pendulum which...
...blaze of imperialist hope & glory. Leopold Amery, former Secretary of State for India, while supporting economic cooperation in Europe, denounced the idea of a European federation. "We can never subject our loyalty to Crown and Empire to some outside authority." The conference came out against freer trade, and for the Empire preference system...
...promising dark horse was Oliver Lyttelton, former Minister of Production and President of the Board of Trade, who is regarded as the Cripps of any future Tory government. He ably and dully defended Britain's steel industry which Labor wants to nationalize. He also showed one of the conference's rare flashes of humor. When a girl autograph hunter asked him to record three wishes, he wrote: "A new suit, a new government...
...want to hand all the power over to either, so we are forced to share it. But De Gaulle has condemned us utterly, and will not share power with us. The Communists are more supple, better tacticians, more like politicians with whom you can make a trade. If we can get them into the government without giving them important posts, we can make them our prisoners. Their presence in the government will prevent them from starting strikes and ruining the French economy. When we are prosperous again we can kick the Communists...