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Last fortnight in Washington Secretary of State Cordell Hull invited Ambassador Andre Lefebvre de Laboulaye of France to his office. There they signed a document "done in duplicate, in the English and French languages, both authentic." The document was the first commercial treaty between the U. S. and France since 1778. It was also the 13th signed under the Trade Agreements...
...only English and German, managed to evoke such dangerous confidences from the most illiterate classes in Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia through interpreters. Author Spivak is a shade too ready to forecast the collapse of tyrannies, to overestimate the potency of the rebellious spirit. His book is valuable as a document of a kind that rarely emerges from the censored murk of dictatorship...
...that idea nothing came, partly because neither the Senate nor the House of Representatives is equipped for sound cinema, partly because of Republican opposition. Nevertheless the film the President saw went to Congress as an official Federal document, is the first motion picture ever placed in Congressional archives. By last week this film, called The Plow That Broke the Plains, was making exciting news in & out of the cinema industry...
...notable group of U. S. industrialists, journalists, chemists and farm experts gathered in Dearborn, Mich, just a year ago to sign a "Declaration of Dependence Upon the Soil and of the Right of Self-Maintenance." This curious document was presented for signature by Francis Patrick Garvan, flag-waving head of the Chemical Foundation, was duly signed in Henry...
...Congress last week went the first of a series of reports from the Securities & Exchange Commission on reorganization and protective committees. This fertile field for Roosevelt reform is still unfinished business so far as New Deal securities legislation is concerned. A 133-page document, crammed with facts, figures and juicy dialog gleaned from SEC's hearings last year, the report dealt only with municipal securities. Other reports on railroad, real estate, industrial and foreign protective committees will soon follow, accompanied by recommendations for regulatory legislation...