Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrats in Milwaukee (see p. 10); saw a delegation of Congressmen about some bills that were failing; signed a bill appropriating $25,000 for the purchase of the late Wiley Post's plane, Winnie Mae, for the Smithsonian Institution; named Robert E. Freer of Ohio to the Federal Trade Commission; signed the AAAmendments; appointed Laurence J. Martin of Virginia Acting Administrator of NRA's skeleton; approved an order to the State Department to crack down on Russia for permitting the Third Internationale to conduct subversive activities in the U. S. (see p. 19). Word arrived from the Capitol...
...distinction of bespectacled, imperturbable John Jay ("Jack") Price is that he is a news photographer who can also write English. Author (News Photography), longtime chief cameraman for the late New York World and now a Manhattan free lance, Jack Price has long campaigned for the improvement of his unpopular trade by supplying all reporters with cameras to take their own pictures. This procedure would effectively abolish Jack Price's vocation, except for the fact that reporters stubbornly dis dain so practical an accomplishment as photography. Jack Price's trade, how ever, is now further than ever from extinction...
...year to $300,000. Preferred stockholders were asked to accept four shares of new common in lieu of their rights to the unpaid dividends. Finally, the company proposed to put an end to the extravagant hopes of its founders by writing off $7,169,000 of trade marks, goodwill and other intangible assets...
...late 20's, plump, moderately pretty. Though it is her third trip to New York and she will not be taken in by the old trade wheeze about "going down to Canal Street to see the canal,"* she is excited, brings along too many clothes. She arrives in a long-sleeved black dress, finds the temperature 88°. The store allows her $8 a day and carfare. She registers at the Hotel McAlpin, convenient to the garment centre. After notifying the Times and the Women's Wear Daily of her arrival, she calls on her store...
...Hollywood Restaurant or to Leon & Eddie's with a young male buyer she has met at a merchandise fair, while her less comely comrades go to bed at 8 o'clock. Sometimes she will be taken to the theatre by someone who wants her trade. Ugly or pretty, every buyer is continually hounded by salesmen who pop up in hotel lobbies, deliver rousing sales talks by telephone and telegram...