Word: trades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...police and "vice lords" for "inter-fering." The public learned more about one "Harry-the-Greek" Bouklias and one Harry Turner, convicted perjurers and underworld go-betweens, whose release from the penitentiary Mellett had fought after having rid Canton of their presence. Sleuths nosed along a well-beaten narcotics trade-route between Canton and Pittsburgh that had been prime target of Mellett's vice-crusade...
...Noted with attention a decision by the Trade Union Council to throw its support once more behind the Miners Federation. As everyone knows these potent bodies were estranged when the Council called off the "general strike" (TIME, May 10), which was originally begun to back up the coal strike...
...Kenyon). The pictorial possibilities of the steel mills are boldly seized upon by this endeavor and frittered away on a silly story. Mr. Sills plays a worker who assumes the blame for a murder, committed by the girl he loves. He escapes to the East and takes up his trade in other mills. The story follows him. The blistering scenery of steel manufacture surrounds the slothful narrative impressively. Perhaps the story might be eliminated and the remains be used for a two-reel educational...
...constructed in a thousand exacerbating shapes. Some of these women still survive. They continue to demand corsets that lace. They constitute, however, only 15% of the U. S. corset buyers, the Bureau of the Census made clear last week, reporting a banner year (1925) for the corset and brassiere trade. The daughters of the lacing women have trifled with their mothers' advice; they purchase only the vaguest and least expensive corsets, girdles, slip-ons. There are 166 corset and brassiere manufacturers in the U. S.-one less than...
...accumulation of old-world scholarship a shrewd and lively buffoonery, that evoked (at first) sniffs in England, amusement in Canada, guffaws in the U. S. He made marionettes of A, B and C in the arithmetic textbooks, pulling the strings with his left hand while he thumbed trade reports with his right. Between lectures on political science he cried out for laughing social philosophers, showing that, while Cardinal Newman had only asked for light, Charles Dickens had given it, and brazenly declaring that he would rather have written Alice's Adventures in Wonderland than the Encyclopaedia Britannica...