Word: trades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Once Secretary of Commerce Hoover met quarterly with editors of trade papers to answer their questions. Last week. President Hoover turned on the editors, asked instead of answering questions, was assured that U. S. business is prosperous and likely to continue...
...Ratified a treaty originated by the League of Nations, to eliminate unjust restrictions (other than tariff barriers) on the passage of goods in international trade...
...were somewhat too robust. Last week, as Commander of the Quantico (Va.) Marine base, he launched another campaign when he discovered one of his non-commissioned officers tending bar for a Quantico village bootlegger. He prohibited his enlisted men from going to the village. Frantic merchants, losing lucrative soldier trade, appealed to the General. He retorted dourly that he would parade his men back to town in a body-after "bootlegging and lawlessness had been stamped...
Secondly Her Majesty signified strong approval for the recent proposal of French Prime Minister Aristide Briand for a general lowering of tariff walls among the nations of a "United States of Europe" (TIME, Sept. 16). As a free trade country with a large mercantile marine The Netherlands would hugely benefit from such all-around scrapping of tariffs...
Equally hard hit by the high tariff is the new export trade which America has built up since the war. One can only wonder what new adaptation of the old Mercantile Theory is taken to justify a policy of excluding the goods of a large customer who can in no other way pay for what he buys...