Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visitors' gallery, where sat a little old U. S.-born lady now known as Mrs. William Hartley Carnegie. She is "Old Joe's" widow, Neville Chamber lain's stepmother and the wife of the Chaplain of the House. In the Chancellor's speech there were a few words of vital importance to the U. S.: "Countries having discriminating tariffs against this country will have to be considered. The Board of Trade, with the concurrence of the Treasury, will be authorized to impose duties up to 100% over and above such additional duties as may be imposed upon any goods coming...
...advantages of such a change, but the argument would be superficial. There are, Dr. Erskine points out, "a few ideas, a few problems which belong to all time." And it is with these problems that the universities should be most deeply concerned. Their task is to sift the vital knowledge of the ages from the dust of its dead framework...
...campaign to stop hoarding." House-to-house canvasses will be made throughout the nation, urging pater families to withdraw his money from the chimney-hole and put it in the corner bank. Colonel Knox, director of the campaign, has said that it "must convince people that the banks are vital to their own interests. The bank is a part of the machinery of life." The people who have lost their life-savings by the closing of banks throughout the country certainly will be surprised to hear that...
...appears to me that the proposal to boycott Japan for an alleged breach of the Pact of Paris rests upon very insecure legal foundations. Japan holds that her action constitutes not war, but intervention, which is allowable when undertaken to preserve vital interests...
...shall never be sought except by pacific means". But this must be read in conjunction with the British Note of May 19, 1928, in which Great Britain reserved her freedom of action in "certain regions of the world, the welfare and integrity of which constitute a special and vital interest for our peace and safety"; and the Japanese Note of May 26, 1928, in which it was stated that the "proposal of the United States is understood to contain nothing that would refuse to independent states the right of self-defense". Mr. J. T. Shotwell, in his Commentary...