Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carthage, Tex., close to the Louisiana State line, Henry Walton, big black buck, began to dote on the philosophy of Huey Long. Last week he got a pistol, used it to knock a storekeeper over the head, helped himself to the trade goods, conducted a brief reign of terror. Then he fled across the Sabine River. When pursuers arrived on the opposite bank, he shouted: "Stay on your side of the Sabine! Me and Huey Long is running this side." The constable of the Carthaginians, who had no wish to share their wealth, knelt down and drilled Henry Walton through...
...first is taken care of by establishing a new class of offences, "unfair labor practices" which the Labor Relations Board would have power to prevent just as the Federal Trade Commission has power to prevent "unfair trade practices." The Wagner Bill forbids employers...
Washington, May 21--Asserting that the depressed world needs an operation and "not a mustard plaster" Sen. Milliard F. Tydings, D., Md., today proposed an international conference on war debts, currency stabilization and trade revival to be held in the nation's capital...
...Roosevelt program scrapped in its entirety, no matter how many stones have been thrown at various parts of it. As Mark Sullivan has pointed out, to make the social reform program fool-proof the Constitution would have to be amended to give Congress power to regulate all business industry, trade, and commerce. But with the states as reluctant now as they were in 1789 to surrender any power to the federal government, there is hardly any hope that such an amendment can be at present more than an elusive vision of Progressive thinkers...
...Springfield. Mo. chain letters became the city's biggest business, cutting heavily into retail trade. Professional operators hired hundreds of stenographers, rented big offices, sold letters to crowds of customers, who in turn sold them to other suckers. On a $5 series, notaries public certified payments to make them "cheat-proof." After one roaring day the boom faded...