Word: trade
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...initiative in social affairs, M. Leroy-Beaulieu said, comes more often from members of the Roman church than from its head, the Pope. During the reaction which followed the French Revolution all trade guilds and labor organizations were suppressed. The Count de Mun opposed the extinction of such unions and founded "cercles Catholiques" of mechanics and laborers...
...Louis D. Brandeis L.'77, will give a lecture under the auspices of the Good Government League of Cambridge this evening at 8 o'clock, in the Citizen's Trade Association Hall, at Central Square. His subject will be "The Legal Rights of Public Franchise Companies in our Streets...
Slavery and the slave trade, Professor DuBois said, began with the appearance at Lisbon in 1442 of 30 negro slaves These excited the cupidity of the Portuguese traders, who realized the superiority of negro labor over Indian labor in working the gold mines of America. The slave trade was then successively taken up by the Dutch, the English, and finally in 1807 by the Americans, the transportation of slaves growing from several thousand in 1450 to over 60,000 in 1790. The present condition of the negro race is due in great measure to the past terrible brutality...
Professor DuBois is undoubtedly the most thoroughly trained and highly educated member of his race in America, and has already made himself an authority on several historical and sociological questions. His doctor's thesis, a monograph on slave trade, was printed as one of the "Harvard Historical Studies." He has written on the condition of the negro in Philadelphia, and in Georgia and other parts of the South. His main literary work. "The Souls of Black Folk," is one of the most striking books that has been written recently by any Harvard graduate, and marks...
...Jeremy lures in customers, and then as the grimy servant of the Alchemist, assists in gulling the victims. The play represents a day's business, one customer following another. Dapper wants a "familiar" to make him win at cards. Drugger comes to learn how to grow rich at his trade. Sir Epicure is trapped by the hope of obtaining the philosopher's stone, which turns metals to gold. Tribulation seeks to enrich his church. Dame Pliant is brought by her brother Kastril to get a titled husband. Each is rapidly and cleverly fleeced, and the dialogue is full...