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Reciprocal Trade. State Secretary Cordell Hull's beloved trade pacts must also be renewed or allowed to die by June. Of all early tests of the temper of the 78th Congress, this will be the most significant. Abandonment of the reciprocal trade principle would be a defeat for freedom of world markets, a victory for high-tariff isolationism. On the debate over this issue, and how it turns out, the U.S. will get its first sharp picture of how the members of both parties in the 78th Congress feel about the postwar world...
...Washington this week Chinese Ambassador Wei Tao-ming inked his paint brush and with delicate strokes inscribed his signature on a new U.S. treaty abolishing U.S. extraterritoriality rights and other special privileges in China. His co-signer was Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who said: "All of us have looked forward to this...
...deliberately tried to make Hull House take a back seat in the affairs of the Halsted Street slums. "The very job of a settlement is to keep putting itself out of business," she announced, to the horror of Hull House traditionalists who not only wanted to keep the place as a going concern but fixed in the course Jane Addams had set. They were also shocked by Miss Carr's smoking and cocktailing, by her taking Jane Addams' bedroom as her office. Charlotte Carr often mourned that Hull House was in danger of becoming a shrine...
When contributions fell off, Miss Carr inevitably had budget trouble. Running in the red for years, Hull House had used up all its surplus funds. A Carr protégée, Mary Wing, offered to make up further deficits of some $20,000-on condition that her friend Charlotte be given a free hand in shaping Hull House policy. The Board of Trustees found the condition unacceptable, and Charlotte Carr refused to work on a smaller budget...
...Hull House's budget of some $110,000 a year was peanuts to Charlotte Carr. "Miss Carr is a big-time operator with a flair for the spectacular," said a trustee last week. In her former job, as director of New York City's Emergency Relief Board (1935-37), she had $9,000,000 a month to spend to feed more people than live in all Milwaukee. Before that, she was Secretary of Labor & Industry in teeming, brawling Pennsylvania...