Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small Japanese force because all available troops have been sent to the front, the Japanese were forced to employ two Chinese battalions, who surrendered when the city was occupied, as Tsinan's military police. Last week hundreds of Chinese soldiers, disguised as coolies or even dressed as market girls, filtered into Tsinan, with arms concealed beneath their clothing. There were whispered conferences with the Chinese battalion leaders and then, encouraged by reports of Chinese success in the Lunghai area, Tsinan's Chinese police revolted. Grabbing their pistols, the only arms allowed them by the Japanese, they barricaded themselves...
...since the loth Century, when the renewal of cities began, and in particular what changes have come about in its physical and social composition during the last century?" The first 300 pages of The Culture of Cities answer these questions. In the medieval town, focused in a church and market square and bounded by a wall, "one was either in or out of the city; one belonged or one did not belong." If one belonged, one also belonged to an association, religious, trade or craft. The city and its social life had form. Contrary to general belief medieval towns were...
...Continued its broad attack upon vast American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Fortnight ago FCCommissioner Paul Walker submitted to Congress the result of his threeyear, $1,500,000 investigation of A. T. & T., recommended sweeping reforms (TIME, April n). For two months before this, A. T. & T. stock was under sharp market pressure, fell from $149 to $111. As soon as the Walker report was out, A. T. & T. bounced up $9.75 in two days. To FCC and SEC this looked suspicious; last week both launched investigations...
...trading was ignored because it seemed of such minor speculative importance. Presently producers began protesting about fluctuations of wool prices and the Senate appointed a Wool Investigating Committee. Matters came to a head last December when wool dealers in Boston demanded the closing of the New York wool futures market, claiming that speculation was rife (TIME, Dec. 6). Finding that wool trading was similar to trading in other commodity futures, the Senate decided to put wool markets also under the eye of the Commodity Exchange Administration and last week President Roosevelt's signature made the bill...
...done to protect insurance companies and others with large railroad holdings. There has been a lot of loose talk about that, snapped the President, when, as a matter of fact, banks and insurance companies generally make a practice of writing down their portfolios along with the decline in market value...