Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down strikes was not the only thing which reminded observers of the medieval dance mania last week as they watched the U. S. Sit-Down epidemic of 1937 spread out across the land. From Salem witchcraft persecution to Ku Klux Klan, from Gold Rush of 1849 to Bull Market of 1929, the U. S. has shown itself no less subject than its sister nations to seizures of mass hysteria. The Sit-Down last week remained primarily a new and powerful weapon in the hands of Organized Labor. But the 600 cigar-factory girls who sat down for extra...
...competitors. Into the law they wrote provisions which would institute a series of export taxes on Philippine goods shipped to the U. S.-the equivalent of a U. S. tariff-beginning at 5% in 1940 and mounting 5% a year. Since the U. S. is the Philippines' best market and the Philippines' chief export, sugar, goes almost entirely to the U. S., the Independence Act, as Señor Quezon well knows, is the next thing to sure ruin for the economy of the Islands. But independence means to the Philippines much what isolation means...
...Beloved Enemy" is a magnificent picture, one not to be missed on any excuse. At times the human side of the war is stressed--the droll "Tommies", the clamorous market-place the mock rebellion of the Irish youngsters, and the peace and beauty of the open fields These details serve only to silhouette more sharply the brooding terror of the rebellion. Sudden death is the backdrop for all the scenes, and always it is threatening to fall down on the players. There is enough martial noise and clank to satisfy the most blood-thirsty, but some other element makes...
...result Harvard Has A Homicide" appeared on the market, and as a further consequence his short novelette on Boston night-life, of which, he confessed, he is not altogether ignorant will appear soon in the American magazine...
...correlation with the feature article of the forthcoming April issue, the program will include a talk by Seymour E. Harris, associate professor of Economics, who will weigh the forces affecting business and market conditions. Particular emphasis will be put on ways and means of preventing a recurrence of the recent depression in the wake of the incipient boom...