Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon your President." That was a magnificent understatement. What the new-Canadian Premier assuredly thought would be a "pleasant thing" was to do something that looked virtually impossible, to fulfill a prime promise that got him elected last month (TIME, Oct. 21). That promise was to make a reciprocal trade treaty that would restore U. S.-Canadian trade. In 1929, the last full year that Prime Minister King and his Liberal Party were in power, Canada bought $948.000,000 of U. S. goods and sold the U. S. $503,000,000 of her goods. In 1930 Mr. King was succeeded...
...weeks before returned to Washington with new inspiration and new orders. Three days later Prime Minister King hustled in to see what he could do in person. His hopes for greater success, judging by his campaign utterances, rested simply on the fact that his heart was for trade, whereas his predecessor's mind had been preoccupied with tariff. The new Prime Minister is by no means an Anglophile. His predecessor's Empire Trade Preference Agreements are one of the things that Mr. King means to alter in order to get better terms for Canada, and he is temperamentally...
...along with Doubleday, Doran Bookshops, Inc., retail booksellers, sued R. H. Macy & Co. for price-cutting on Doubleday books. Whether or not publisher and lawyer had gone abroad to plan their campaign in the privacy of the high seas, their action involved the validity of the Feld-Crawford Fair Trade Act, affected Listerine, Lysol, Jello, Postum, many another nonliterary product...
Nelson Doubleday, not through his book stores but through his mail order sales & book clubs, is himself a price-cutter and for that reason is by no means popular in the book trade. Jack Strauss, Macy's bookman, is his good friend. But shrewd Mr. Doubleday wanted a test-case on the law, and Macy's supplied a perfect one. Sole issue was the constitutionality of the State law. For Macy's, Lawyer Leon Lauterstein argued that the department store was being deprived of property without due process of law. He said that the books belonged...
...grew up to write sports for a Chicago newspaper, manage prizefighters, pick losers at racetracks, lose his job when his paper went into a merger. Then he became an automobile salesman with his sporting friends his best customers. He entered the taxicab business when he turned four old trade-ins into hacks. Cabstands were located at hotels, and cabmen paid hotel-operators large concessions. Mr. Hertz took his cabs away from the hotels, cruised them around the streets, painted them yellow, cut fares from 40? to 20? a mile. He organized additional Yellow Cab companies, at one time controlled...