Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, as Mr. Hull dickered desperately with Argentina for his 23rd trade agreement, the 23rd tide of complaints rolled in. Cattlemen, dairymen, manufacturers squawked louder than ever before. Not only had Republicans whipped up anti-agreement sentiment throughout the Midwest, but New Dealers from agricultural States had pledged themselves to jerk away Mr. Hull's powers at the earliest opportunity...
January's session of the 76th Congress will be that opportunity. But by January Mr. Hull may not care. Soon the massive Argentine trade agreement will be concluded; hard on its heels, one with Chile; a third with Uruguay. With these 25 in Mr. Hull's pocket-agreements with countries representing about 80% of U. S. foreign trade-the Congress will be ceremoniously locking the barn door after the horse has been led to water...
Question. Last week, when Republican leaders assembled in Washington, correspondents were surprised to find that the biggest question was: What will Herbert Hoover do? General agreement was that at next year's convention he will control at least 200 of the 1,000 delegates. Of course the Republicans agreed that 1940 would see the New Deal's end. But general agreement, not only in Washington D. C., but in Oregon, Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas, etc., was that, with stage set, audience waiting, superspectacle prepared-with a fine cast of characters, a wonderful story, a happy ending-the star performer...
...Allied-German duel for Yugoslav trade the Nazis appeared the winners of round one. The Germans forced Yugoslavia to recognize (in principle) pre-World War I debts incurred by Serbia and by the old Austrian province of Bosnia, now in Yugoslavia. Remarkable feature of this agreement was that neither debt has been serviced since 1914, and that both were virtually considered as having lapsed. To pay off the "debts," Yugoslavia will presumably offer goods...
Back in August, Tabouis had written: "The Reich Army will join Hungary's General Staff in a common offensive against Rumania." Two weeks later, when Germany invaded Poland, Hungary was neutral. Said Tabouis, two days before Stalin signed a trade agreement with Hitler: "Foreign observers in Berlin learned last night that a basis for agreement has been reached in Moscow by France, England Russia, Poland, Rumania and Turkey...