Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Time & again municipal polls have shown how His Majesty's subjects would vote in their next national election for members of the House of Commons. Five years ago, in November 1928, bumbling conservative Stanley Baldwin seemed fairly secure as Prime Minister, but the Labor Party scored a net gain of 188 municipal council seats and six months later Laborite James Ramsay MacDonald won Labor's greatest victory in the general election of May 1929 and sent Mr. Bald win packing. Again three years ago the tide was seen to turn when Labor suffered a net loss...
...pelt sales were $3,288,000, biggest month's total since October 1931. Road salesmen's summer orders were up 25% to 50%, August retail sales up 50% to 100% from 1932. Rising sharply since June, prices of raw furs last week showed an average gain of some 20%. With fashion strongly in their favor, manufacturers and retailers were prepared for an autumn & winter trade which might reach 75% of fat 1929's. All this was good news to some 3,000 fur farmers in the U. S., 1,500 in Canada. This month began their season...
...Roman Catholic and had nine children. But ceremony-loving Puerto Ricans, accustomed to the tact and diplomacy of Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and the quiet efficiency of Governor James Rumsey Beverley, found it difficult to understand Governor Gore's blunt and open manner. He sought to gain popularity by legalizing cockfighting throughout the island (he signed the bill with a tailfeather-see cut) but got only a few scattered cheers. Opposition to his methods arose in the Independence wing of the Liberal Party and before a month was out Governor Gore's name became involved in a series...
...market. When the market price reaches the prices fixed in the orders, the specialist executes them. Because the specialist thus knows the supply & demand factors better than anyone else, the Stock Exchange has passed very strict rules forbidding the specialist to use this inside information for his own gain. Offenses are called "trading against the book...
...British Labour Party is returning to 1931 strength and probably also to a repetition of the 1931 catastrophe. Its gains in the recent by-elections have been impressive; it has won 180 seats, lost 7, as against the Conservative's showing of 9 won, 112 lost, and the Liberals's gain of 5 and loss of 33. But if one can believe the opinion of John Strachey, once a confidant of the higher-ups in the Labour Party, this success at the polls will bring surprise not unmingled with consternation to the Party leaders. And this apparent paradox is easily...