Word: trades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...According to Article V of the trade agreement, Mr. Khinchuk [head of the Soviet Trade delegation, but absent last week at the League of Nations Economic Conference (see THE LEAGUE)] enjoys all of the rights and immunities enjoyed by the official representatives of other foreign powers in Britain. The right of Mr. Khinchuk to the above-mentioned privileges was confirmed quite recently by the Foreign Office note...
...During the raid an employe of the trade delegation, Mr. Khudiakov, who had refused to give up the key of a safe containing the personal papers, ciphers, codes, etc., of the official trade agent was assaulted by the police. Mail addressed to the official trade agent, which had just been brought by couriers, was carried off by the police. These proceedings are in flagrant violation of Article V of the trade agreement...
...Soviet Trade delegation later issued a statement to the press, reading, in part: ". . . The way the raid was carried on gives no guarantee that documents and materials which the police might allege to have found were really there before the raid took place...
Because the Chicago Board of Trade, if its officials had been conscientiously alert, might have prevented the Armour Grain Co. frauds (TIME, April 25 et ante), the Board has been the butt of severe criticism. Last week the situation...
...Illinois state senate had passed the Kessinger bill, which will require that all Board of Trade transactions be reported openly. There can be no privacy, no secrecy. The Board had a battalion of hushers lobbying the state house of representatives to prevent passage of the Kessinger bill through that body. If the bill becomes law, grain traders can get an injunction to prevent its going into effect...