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Arthur R. Reis, Jr., Princeton '39, declared in summing up the discussions at the Latin-American table that closer cultural ties must be established with South America. As chairman of the International Trade Table, D. A. Schmechel, Yale '40, stressed the importance of the Hull trade agreement program coupled with economic sanctions against aggressors, as a move for world peace...
...avoid upsetting the stockmarket, announcement of the Fleet order was withheld until after noon Saturday (see p. 17). But at 10:30 a.m. correspondents covering the State Department were told to go over to the White House offices. Secretary Hull crossed the street ahead of the newshawks. Also seated in the President's office when the press was admitted were UnderSecretary Welles and Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. When 25 correspondents had filed in (usually there are more than 100), President Roosevelt asked in surprise: "Where are they all?" The White House had outdone itself...
...Secretary of State Hull came out in favor of Government-subsidized barter trade by the U. S., to whip the Dictators at their own economic game. Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador to Britain, received mention for barterer-in-chief...
...Secretary of Agriculture Wallace found a new scapegoat for his agricultural troubles. He blamed the Dictators' barter methods for the failure of Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade treaties to win markets for U. S. farm products...
...also have to correct them for deviation, a local error caused by magnetic metals (chiefly iron, steel) in their own craft. The Research is unique because she is nonmagnetic in every possible detail, will have infinitesimal local deviation errors. A throwback to the wooden-ship days, she has a hull of teak, bolts, girders and anchor chain of aluminum bronze. Her cooking utensils and tableware are aluminum; her four Diesels (three for auxiliary power, one for propulsion in calms) are of bronze and aluminum. Her only steel is in their crankshafts and cylinders and it is nonmagnetic. Before she shoves...