Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They wanted him to promise a lower U. S. tariff on sugar, and a U. S. guarantee to buy 2,000,000 tons a year. In exchange Cuba would lower tariffs on U. S. imports. Keeping in touch with the U. S. State Department by telephone, Mr. Welles steered wide on the subject of U. S. intervention. His calmness disarmed Cuba's Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara who suddenly bubbled over that the U. S. had promised to do "everything humanly and superhumanly possible" to keep Machado in power. Mr. Welles did not bother to point out that...
...editorial desk from which he peers across the Pacific into the Orient, across North America at Europe, and across the years into the Future, an earnest, tireless idealist named Robert James Cromie publishes the Vancouver Sun, dominant daily of western Canada. Publisher Cromie is even more widely known than his newspaper. As a reporter, he takes the world for his beat, traveling all over it frequently, meeting and observing its famed persons and places. When he returns home he writes editorials for his paper, ambitious in conception, abounding in hope and prophecy, eloquent in a style not unlike that...
...have read your article, "Mistresses & Matrimony" in the issue of May 15 with some interest and not a little wonder. It is easy enough for New York State to give its judges "wide discretion" to "modify alimony payments.'' Perhaps the legislators who passed the law will soon pass another law making it possible for women to earn a living after their husbands have left them and their children without support. It has always been difficult for women to find adequate jobs open to them in a man's world. It is considerably more difficult in the past...
...find a man to succeed Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board was no easy matter. President Roosevelt hunted' high & low, far & wide. Last week he made his selection-Eugene Robert ("Gene") Black, Governor of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank...
...Cord, whose companies have never been noted for high wages, upped all workers in his automobile and aviation units 5%. Up 12½% went all Goodyear Tire & Rubber employes. Up 10% went wages in George E. Rogers & Co., Pittsburgh wholesale hay & grain dealers. The upping movement undoubtedly spread far & wide last week, but three things the Press did not report were: 1) What percentage of all U. S. workers received raises. 2) what the wages were before, 3) wage cuts...