Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador to Russia by Woodrow Wilson. In 1912 young Lawyer Joe Davies. Democratic National Committeeman from Wisconsin, ran Woodrow Wilson's western campaign headquarters in Chicago. When Wilson was elected Mr. Davies was made U. S. Commissioner of Corporations, later upped to chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. He was one of the bright young men of the Wilson Administration, and from another of that group he still has an old photograph inscribed. 'To my old side kick," signed "Franklin Roosevelt." He declined the job of Ambassador to Russia, or to Italy, or of Governor General...
Primed for Thanksgiving and Christmas trade, the five stores, which do more than half of downtown Philadelphia's retail trade, had customers by the hundreds turn away from their doors. After a few trucks had been overturned, deliveries came virtually to a-halt. At week's end union officials claimed the stores had lost $1,000,000 worth of sales. Dumbfounded were their owners, who had been confident that the city would forbid mass picketing. Instead, Mayor S. Davis Wilson, who devoted his main speech before the U. S. Conference of Mayors in Washington last week to boasting...
Miss Ellen Wilkinson, the tiny Member for Jarrow whose "hunger marchers" have recently been snubbed in London,* tackled the Cabinet's wealthy shipping tycoon, President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman, thus: "Can the President say why, in the case of two American magazines of high repute which have been imported into this country, during the last few wrecks at least two and sometimes three pages have been torn...
...Business and Best Families are more closely united in Philadelphia than in any other major U. S. city. Success in trade may not lead to the Wistar Parties, the Philadelphia Club, the Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill or the Assembly, whose roster of names has changed but little since it was founded in 1748. But in Philadelphia, as in Boston, finance and society tend to merge in a vast accumulation of personal trust funds. There the Stock Exchange and the Racquet Club stand almost cheek by jowl. Last week, to Philadelphians in their clubs and counting rooms came...
...usual adeptness, contributes a piece of muddled thinking when he likens the Conference to the "Wilsonian illusion". The new effort is directed, indeed, towards a limited measure of international security, but nobody expects it to provide a patent remedy for world differences. Rather it is an opportunity for horse-trading, for the exchange of one practical concession for another. And if the seeds planted concern a multi-lateral agreement and trade pacts, Buenos Aires will not be found a Sahara...