Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspaper headlines throughout the country, the name Baumes had been rising to new prominence. Who, what it is-trade mark, symbol, place-many people can only guess. But in the New York Senate they know what lies behind the name: it is a man. State Senator Caleb H. Baumes, short, sparse, with drooped moustache and thin white hair, sponsored the Baumes laws, sputtered and spumed "mawkish sentiment" at critics who called them cruel, lived to see his name rise to a disembodied symbol of "punishment to fit the crime...
...Britain made her trade agreement with Russia in March. Republican Germany denounced the treaty of Brest-Litovsk and made a more just peace with Russia in May. Other powers followed suit...
...released men, success is not looked upon in the customary limited way, but taken to include success in every conceivable line, family life, associations, religious attachments as well as business. In observing their business progress, it is to see how they have utilized the knowledge of the trade they learned at the reformatory. "For of course," Dr. Glueck said, "many of these young men became criminals for lack of knowing anything else to do. On the other hand we find great numbers of the men, at the end of the five-year period back in jail somewhere...
...warn the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in the gravest terms that there are limits beyond which it is dangerous to drive public opinion in this country and that the continuance of such acts as here complained of must sooner or later render inevitable the abrogation of the trade agreement,* the stipulations of which have been so flagrantly violated, and even the severance of ordinary diplomatic relations...
...Grey Ghost drifted ashore on Santa Catalina Island, Fishermen McKinley was dead and Fisherman Kelly was, by agreement, a cannibal, still alive but half-crazed (TIME, Jan. 3, 10). Fisherman George McShallis of San Pedro, Calif., salvaged the Grey Ghost and sailed to San Clemente to ply his trade...