Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huey Long, badly frazzled, was ready to quit. Democratic oldsters of the Senate were also ready to trade him permission to march out with the honors of the filibuster if he would agree to a vote next day on the NRA resolution. When Senator Harrison went back to the rear-row neophytes and whispered the leadership's scheme, there was a determined shaking of heads. "Hell.no! We're going to stay here until Long drops in his tracks." An hour passed and Senator Schwellenbach asked another question...
...strike to keep wages up (TIME, June 10). In wholehearted sympathy with him are most of the Northern bituminous mine operators, who will continue to pay high wages if the Government will continue to help hold coal prices up. Miner Lewis, abetted by the owners, has been working a trade with the Administration whereby he would call off his coal strike in return for passage of the Guffey bill. This measure, devised and sponsored by the first Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania in 54 years, would declare soft coal a public utility; authorize the Government...
Japan's pacifists and Communists have been largely driven into hiding but still extant is the National Council of Japanese Trade Unions and in Manhattan last week arrived its chairman, doughty Mr. Kanju Kato. Ever fearless of the "patriotic" assassins who have often tried to get him, Mr. Kato bluntly answered a Herald Tribune newshawk's question: "Have...
...Enforcement, after a two-year lapse, of the anti-trust laws pertaining to practices acting in restraint of trade...
Messrs. Hertz, Odium & Fortington also had rich friends who liked the looks of the Paramount wreck. Stockholders, bondholders, trade creditors, and the big banks all had conflicting claims. But the importance of Messrs. Hertz, Odium, Fortington & friends was the fact that together they owned nearly $20,000,000 face value of defaulted Paramount debentures and other claims. What was more, they had shrewdly purchased most of the bonds after the company went bankrupt. Thus it was that Messrs. Hertz, Odium et al. had much more to say about the reorganization plan which went to the courts last November than...