Word: trades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Women's Trade Union League of America...
...commixture of cross-purposes, opposite intentions, and dense miscomprehension. The problem, in itself difficult to grasp, is inextricably dove-tailed with questions of German reparations. French public finance, allied debts to England, and American monopoly of the world's gold, and it is complicated by contrary theories of international trade. Threatening factions between the former allies cannot be overlooked. The danger of over-whelming the French government with bankruptcy is very real, for present loans are being subscribed on the assumption that the United States will not insist upon the collection of its war loans...
...vocational training. They do not think that vocational training is unnecessary or that it is to be regarded with indignation; they do believe, however, that those who are students of factory or business management, scientific poultry raising or agriculture should be trained for their professions in vocational or trade schools, thus permitting the college and the university to remain symbolic of that which it was originally symbolic: of the Arts and Sciences...
...lumber business and failed at it, tried to start a newspaper and failed at it, then turned to writing and has been more successful at it than most of his fellow "best-sellers." That fact that The Go-Getter* and its doctrine have made him a good-salesman trade-mark irks him occasionally, for he says that he is forever talking to Rotary Clubs and young men's organizations on the gospel of success. Why not? He has the recipe...
...attainment of this aim, held visionary in London only a few weeks ago, is now expected even in conservative quarters within the next six months. The effort to regain a gold standard for the pound sterling is of prime importance in really bringing about a reconstruction of international trade and financial conditions. The effects of such a step are at present only to be conjectured. To the U. S., the chief results are likely to be larger foreign loans, reduced gold supply, increased exports and imports, a rise in interest rates and a higher level for foreign bonds which have...