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...Bergen Barter. Unusual was a deal proposed in an advertisement in the Bergen Record (Hackensack, N. J.) last week. "An experienced dental surgeon," it said, "stands ready to exchange his service for merchandise or edibles...
James Maxwell Murphy is correct. To the State of Wisconsin, apologies. But the adjacent connotation "badger v. t." which Webster does say derives from Wisconsin is as follows: "To beat down; cheat; barter; bargain...
...Editor and General Manager Emeritus of the A. M. A., at present in England. *British economist (1723-90) whose Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations discusses the principle of division of labor, based primarily on the propensity of human nature "to truck, barter or exchange one thing for another." Precedent to this division of labor is the accumulation of capital...
...mood to play Santa Claus. His gift: revision of a treaty into which Sultan Seyed Syeed Bey was inveigled by shrewd Yankee traders 97 years ago. which provided that U. S. citizens should always be welcomed to Oman's ports, be free to sell or barter their wares without being charged a tariff duty of more than 5%. Also included was a clause providing hospitality to U. S. mariners shipwrecked on Oman's shores...
Wild words preceded the vote. Arizona's Senator Ashurst charged that the Administration was trying to barter judgeships for Parker votes, named Washington's Senator Dill as the recipient of such an offer. Senator Dill explained that a private friend had said something about a judgeship but that he (Dill) considered it only a joke. California's Senator Johnson rattled off a speech against confirmation at such high speed that the galleries heard only a blur of sound. Idaho's Sena- tor Borah was in the middle of a long, involved sentence when he was cut short by the Vice...