Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trumped-up enthusiasm stirred this crowd, for Franklin Roosevelt's policies have been more uniformly admired abroad than at home, and many a Canadian especially wishes him well because he fears that, if Governor Landon is elected, the New Deal's reciprocal trade agreement with Canada may be ended. Under a pavilion erected on the grass above the broad boardwalk of the terrace Lord Tweedsmuir stepped forward, looking, for all his gold braid, his medals and his cocked hat, very much the dyspeptic man of letters he is, and began: "Mr. President, as the personal representative...
...announced by the King who fortnight ago canceled his summer lease on the $350,000 villa on the French Riviera of Actress Maxine Elliott (TIME, Aug. 3). He turned last week to the "Richest British Widow," Lady Yule, whose husband Sir David ("The Scottish King of the Indian Jute Trade") left some $100,000,000 to her and Daughter Gladys. To King Edward, Lady Yule leased her $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin (an Indian name meaning "Fleetfoot...
...plan succeeds we will have Social Credit before we know it!" cried an Aberhart spokesman, while the Premier himself warned: "Acceptance of our prosperity certificates by tradesmen will be purely voluntary but they will have no alternative except to take them or lose their trade...
...Doctor. . . ." A State medical inspector, egged on by irate doctors, ordered Barnet Males to get himself and machine off the Boardwalk. Mr. Males dodged around to the entrance of Coney Island's Luna Park, sued to restrain the police from bothering him, intransigently placed this advertisement in Billboard, trade sheet of the amusement business...
...heavily for pep-talks, high-pressure promotion. A poignant little editorial in the Etude Music Magazine last year related the tale of a millionaire's daughter who was saved from something worse than death by staying home to practice on her piano. Retail association heads exhort the trade to avoid competitive squabbles. Thundered NAMM's President Alfred D. LaMotte in the convention issue of Piano Trade Magazine: "I protest most vigorously any implication that there is any real competition between pianos and piccolos, accordions and ocarinas or harmonicas and harps." Pianos. In 1935 about $60,000,000 worth...