Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Note: Mr. Roberts is the well-known author of the recent best-seller, "Northwest Passage...
Landing in San Francisco from a tour of the Orient, the venerable Roger Babson had something to say to the press. Mr. Babson, who for almost 40 years has made his living selling the public charts and prophecies about business, announced last week that so far as the U. S. economy is concerned "The war in Europe is unimportant. . . . the important thing is . . . what is going on in the Orient. Trade always has moved westward...
...During Mr. Babson's absence, however, the war undoubtedly made a bigger impression on U. S. trade. For the first time in years many a firm has now more orders than it can fill in three months' full production. By last week U. S. Business had begun to ask "Here's the war boom-but where are the war orders...
Last week, before the Government's Committee for Reciprocity Information at Washington, Arthur Besse made an earnest plea: 1) terminate all Mr. Hull's reciprocal trade agreements (which would get rid of reduced tariffs on wool goods) for the duration of the war; 2) consider upping tariffs to prevent flooding of the U. S. market by foreign producers. Said he: "When the war is over we will be powerless to prevent a flood of foreign fabrics...
...painting. Indignantly wrote Painter Baldi: "I most frankly state that I have revolutionized the art of painting. . . . The reason to boycott my painting took place to protect from monetary disaster and depreciation all the canvas and exterior painting, where there is many billions of dollars involved throughout the world. . . ." Mr. Baldi's rejected work was a picture of Rudolph Valentino fighting a docile bull beneath an inset of the Great Lover as he appeared in The Son of the Sheik...