Word: trades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the next President would be chosen from the Democratic party. But with the death of President Harding and the advent of President Coolidge the oil scandals slipped out of the headlines and into the courts and, what with the slowness of legal procedure and the public willingness to trade old sensations for new, Teapot Dome and Elk Hills ceased to agitate the popular mind...
...Stockholm, Sir Alan Garrett Anderson, acting president of the International Chamber of Commerce congress, made an eloquent appeal for tariff reductions: "We generally speak as if someone besides ourselves were responsible for trade barriers, but frankly, must we not admit that we manufacturers and producers of goods sold in all countries, we and the men and women of our employ, are the real force behind the trade barriers? We producers have labored to protect ourselves, our products and our wage standards, and trade barriers are the methods we chose. Alas for the futility of human hopes and even interests...
...congress resolved: "The congress wishes most particularly to affirm the emphatic adhesion of the business world to the Geneva Conference regarding those tariff walls and policies which are unduly hampering trade directly or indirectly. It especially associates itself with the statement: 'The Conference declared that .the time had come to put an end to an increase in tariffs and to move in the opposite direction...
Attorney General Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, sponsor of the Trade Unions Bill, was called during the final debate, "You blackguard! You liar!" by Laborite James Maxton, whom the Speaker forthwith suspended...
Then, last week, in Editor & Publisher, "trade" magazine for newspapermen, one Philip Schuyler related that the Lindbergh-signed stories were not written by Lindbergh. He named their true author-one Carlyle MacDonald, a member of the New York Times European staff. Thus, if Mr. Schuyler wrote correctly, when Mr. James of the New York Times referred to Colonel Lindbergh's dictating his story to the stenographer, it was the story of Mr. MacDonald of the New York Times that the stenographer was really transcribing. Even the compliment to the beauty of Erin may have been a MacDonald heartthrob rather...