Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Admiralty were in course last week of transferring their main historical Mediterranean base from Malta, which belongs to the Empire, to Alexandria, which belongs to Egypt. "Alexandria," cried British President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman, "is now the strategic centre of the world...
Soil primarily theological seminaries, Baptist Brown and Dutch Reformed Rutger's reflected the changing manners, the flourishing trade and wealth of their world, in more liberal purposes and methods. Chartered as Rhode Island College and Queens, both were soon re-named after important benefactors...
...good many a navy has meant an armed force ready to promote international trade and imperialism. The last two administrations have insisted rightly and with increasing emphasis, that playing the part of a strong-armed bully in the Caribbean doesn't pay, even in a financial way. And the Philippines are being thrown into the discard for much the same reasons. As for trade, President Roosevelt has succeeded in reducing exports to negligible proportions by his triple-threat, the AAA. Further, shippers to warring countries have been warned that such trade is their own risk, not the nation...
...tribunal unless he has arbitration clauses in his contracts. And no one can force him to use arbitration clauses. But once the bickering parties submit their controversy to AAA they must proceed according to AAA's uniform, formalized and legally-binding rules. They are sure, however, that their trade secrets will be honored and their defeats discreetly hidden...
...arbitrators are hand-picked panels of public-minded citizens in 1,700 U. S. cities. Special panels of experts are maintained for technical trade disputes. In Manhattan the AAA has nearly 1,500 in its panels including names like Banker Winthrop Aldrich, Lawyer James M. Beck, Cineman Jesse Lasky, Funnyman Eddie Cantor, Mrs. Vincent Astor. The arbitrators serve free, are called two or three times a year, may be excused if busy...