Word: trades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rise in sugar has become a political as well as financial sensation. Six separate government agencies are now investigating the sugar situation: the Departments of Justice, Commerce, Agriculture and Treasury, the Federal Trade Commission, the U. S. Tariff Commission. The most vigorous action so far has been the application by the first-named for an injunction against the New York Sugar Exchange. A host of local political figures are also joining in the search for the guilty parties, notably Mayor Hylan, who has urged a consumers' boycott. Several women's organizations have announced a ferocious willingness to abstain...
...briefly this: the British Government would like to assist the United States in evidence of friendliness. The sale and transportation of liquor, however, is perfectly legal for British subjects, and the Government cannot act to abridge their rights. Moreover, it is to British commercial interest that the liquor trade should go on. So there is little likelihood of any decisive assistance coming from Great Britain...
...Bahamas in 1923 at the present rate of export. The Springfield Republican points an interesting parallel between rum smuggling and slave smuggling prior to the Civil War, which makes this figure seem rather insignificant. The importation of slaves to the United States was forbidden in 1808, but illicit trade continued over 50 years until the Civil War and the Declaration of Emancipation. England was against the slave trade, too, and not commercially interested in its continuance, as she now is in the rum traffic. But in 1858, according to the calculation of Stephen A. Douglas, 15,000 slaves were brought...
...demand for the resumption of trade relations with Russia has broken out again, and seems likely to assume a serious complexion...
...Socialists, who have hitherto made all the noise, have now been joined by organized business concerns. The Socialists are, of course, out for the full recognition of the Soviet Government and its auxiliaries in Greater Russia, while the business people want only trade relations to be reestablished...