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...kept Europe's diplomats well supplied with offers to make peace by selling or bartering parts of the empire, emitting at the same time declarations to the world press that he will part with "not an inch" of Ethiopian soil. If these Imperial activities resemble a Semitic tradesman's strident, righteous protestations and simultaneous readiness to compromise, they are not the Man of the Year's fault but aspects of his God-given character...
...raise in pay. Under the old FERA set-up a skilled laborer got $60 per month, worked just long enough to earn it at prevailing (i. e. union) wages. Under the new WPA setup, to which New York City relief jobs were shifted last week, the tradesman gets up to $93.50 per month, but must work at least 120 hr. for it. That means an hourly wage well below the prevailing rate...
Throughout the week Rabbi Wise and his Conference put on a good show of representing the "forgotten Jew," the petty Jewish tradesman who fills his shop window with anti-Hitler slogans. In a cablegram to the Conference last week Spearhead Samuel Untermyer of the anti-Nazi boycott begged Rabbi Wise not to give the impression that the boycott is primarily Jewish. "Few influential Jews are supporting us," declared Boycotter Untermyer. "No Jewish banker is a member of any boycott committee or has openly dared to support or contribute to the movement because of fear of German reprisals or because...
...often been remarked that heavy traffic in the Yard is for the most part as unnecessary as it is annoying. There is a serious question whether the sleek and oleaginous vans of the carriage tradesman or the monstrous drays of the express companies threaten pensive scholar and woolgathering student the more. Perhaps the one, stalking in his quiet, feline approach, is the worse for life and limb, the other the more menacing to sanity as it honks and howls and rumbles and clatters. At any rate the intruders are a nuisance...
...what not, displayed promiscuously on shops and other premises where they are sold. The Society has been endeavoring to find a way of controlling such advertisements without abolishing them, and the Home Office has now sanctioned a new model form of exemption. ... Its general effect is to allow a tradesman to announce his business-once, on each front of his premises toward a road and to display advertisements ... on a single space on the building of not more than 24 sq. ft. "On the question of litter, there is no doubt that the habits of the public have greatly improved...