Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German trade treaty of 1925. Specifically, in the case of an obscure German who has been trying for months to wangle a renewal of his masseur's license out of Commissioner of Licenses Paul Moss. pugnacious Fiorello LaGuardia snarled: "Wherever anyone is depending on this Treaty to get a license he won't get it! ... The issue is: should we extend privileges to German citizens here when similar privileges are denied to American citizens in Germany? . . . This is a great big thing. This is a broad interpretation of treaty rights . . . worth fighting...
...being right. Cut-rate dollars, cut-rate pounds, cut-rate yen and the rest of the Great Powers' goods-dumping moves have provided such keen competition for Italian exports that not even the most drastic dictating has been able to achieve for Italy a favorable balance of trade. Her excess of imports over exports for the first five months of this year was 1,157,000,000 lire ($95,552,500). Today II Duce is seeking a solution by the conquest of Ethiopia reported by recent geological surveys to be gratifyingly rich in precious metals, oil and other untapped...
...Wiggins Trade School stepped into the entrance hall, bugged his eyes. Overnight the two upper corners of the panel had been painted in. On the right, flames were licking the smooth, bare bosom of a pensive goddess. On the left, a bisexual ogre with bulbous breasts was squeezing gold coins from the eye sockets of a skull. Horrified, Principal Johnson rang for the janitor, hung 80 yards of cheesecloth over the mural before his pupils arrived. Artist Katz kept on working. Under the cheesecloth a blind, muscular youth in rowing trunks took shape. The youth's left arm stretched...
Last week the Los Angeles school board was in a noteworthy dither of excitement over a mural which could be seen by anyone who cared to peek under a cheesecloth curtain in the entrance hall of the Frank Wiggins Trade School. The painting is the work of Leo Katz, a Viennese artist originally brought to the U. S. by Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip to paint the Vanderlip family. Artist Katz started the mural as a PWA project, finished it on his own time, working nights, Saturdays, Sundays. Like Rivera and Orozco, he drew his inspiration from Mexico but he avoided...
...silver purchasing policy have been: 1) a panic in China, 2) temporary dislocation of the Mexican banking system, 3) enrichment of a number of speculators at home & abroad, 4) accumulation of an enormous hoard of bullion which the Treasury may never be able to sell and 5) booming bar trade in all the mining camp saloons of the Mountain States...