Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quote a Chicago lawyer saying, Ceasar is as Grudus,† Washington is Benefict Arnold, and United States a Jefferson Davis, intimating that Jefferson, the elected President of a seceding organization, should be placed in the same group with the man who murdered his friend and a man who would trade his country for money. In your issue of May 30, you quote Clarence Darrow, a Chicago lawyer, as saying before a Negro organization in attempting to answer the question as to why there are so many different colors among Negroes-"It must be that so many white women have raped...
...Passed by a majority of 215 the Conservative Government's highly reactionary Trade Unions Bill (TIME, May 30), drafted to prevent the recurrence of the British General Strike (TIME...
Feodor Chaliapin, most famed Russian operatic basso, received news last week in London that the Soviet Trade Union of Artists in Moscow, had just voted to deprive him of his cherished, official Russian title, "The People's Artist." Newsgatherers sought put gigantic Singer Chaliapin in his dressing room, found him sitting hunched and disconsolate in a purple and cream silk dressing gown and red leather slippers. As everyone knows, M. Chaliapin's English is quaint. Correspondents reproduced it as follows: "I was born and always will be, a 'people's' artist. I sing for everyone...
...York City last year ten of the 759 deaths from alcoholism were due to wood alcohol (methanol) ; in 1925, six of the 682 alcoholic deaths were so due. Wood alcohol, claimed the editors of Chemicals, trade publication, last week, has been maligned as a cause of death...
...taxi industry in Manhattan has its own trade paper, the Taxi Weekly. At almost any corner you may occasionally see drivers who are not "cruising, cruising," and have been lucky enough to find parking space, poring over the news of their profession. Last week, for example, idle* eyes lit up at the screamer headline "HIGHER CAB RATE PLANNED...