Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cash & Carry. But fear of war still stirred in Congress. So in May 1937 another Neutrality Act was passed. At the instigation of Bernard M. Baruch, wise old chairman of the onetime War Industries Board, it added to the provisions of the earlier acts, authority for the President to forbid the export of any goods to a warring nation except on a cash & carry basis. He never used this power and two months ago it expired...
Three Schools. Thus, while the world warred, the U. S. grew wise in the ways of neutrality, but its wisdom is not yet ripe. The New York Herald Tribune dismissed the 1937 neutrality law as "an Act to preserve the U. S. from intervention in the War of 191418." Congress still writes neutrality laws by hindsight, but it is still stirred to write them...
...wise not to praise American skyscrapers to informed citizens of the United States except on esthetic grounds. The skyscraper is regarded as a bad mistake. It is unlikely that many more will be built...
...want more things and become extravagant, of taking advantage of human psychology by playing on people's vanity and emotions. It concedes that "it is impossible to carry on our economic life today without advertising," but adds: "we must ask ourselves if all the advertising today is wise and necessary." Among other things it credits Mr. Falk's organization with having done much to eliminate unfair advertising practices. Mr. Falk retorts: "We regret that his discussion of [our work] is much too brief. compared with the opposing text, and that it does not change much the previously built...
...Falk accuses Mr. Rugg of: >Creating the impression that most advertising is dishonest by citing exceptional examples. Widely advertised products, argues Mr. Falk, are more likely to be of good quality than those not advertised, because a producer of identifiable goods "is usually wise enough to protect their reputation by delivering quality products...