Bretton Woods Agreements Act, Volumes 1-2

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945 - 1334 páginas
 

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Passagens conhecidas

Página 514 - I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
Página 226 - March 11, 1941, the terms and conditions thereof shall be such as not to burden commerce between the two countries, but to promote mutually advantageous economic relations between them and the betterment of world-wide economic relations.
Página 390 - ... apportion its existing and accruing supply of the scarce currency with due regard to the relative needs of Members, the general international economic situation, and any other pertinent considerations.
Página 226 - ... directed to the expansion, by appropriate international and domestic measures, of production, employment, and the exchange and consumption of goods, which are the material foundations of the liberty and welfare of all peoples; to the elimination of all forms of discriminatory treatment in international commerce, and to the reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers...
Página 211 - Whenever the Fund is of the opinion that any member is using the resources of the Fund in a manner contrary to the purposes of the Fund...
Página 466 - To facilitate the expansion and balanced growth of international trade, and to contribute thereby to the promotion and maintenance of high levels of employment and real income and to the development of the INTERNATIONAL ORGN'S.
Página 33 - Woods conference forty-four countries agreed upon plans for an international monetary fund and an international bank for reconstruction and development.
Página 29 - The Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, is authorized to purchase any obligations of the Corporation issued hereunder, and for such purpose the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use as a public-debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities hereafter issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended...
Página 514 - Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better and because I am not sure that it is not the best.
Página 225 - Kingdom and will promote the establishment and maintenance of world peace; and Whereas the Governments of the United States of America and the United Kingdom are mutually desirous of concluding now a preliminary agreement in regard to the provision of defense aid and in regard to certain considerations which shall be taken into account in determining such terms and conditions and the making of such an agreement has been in all respects duly authorized, and all acts, conditions, and formalities which...