Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Huston Thompson, Democrat, who has served on the Federal Trade Commission since 1918, retired last week. President Coolidge is pondering a list of Democrats, from which he will select a successor...
...Chicago Trade Union College-Charm (in dress, conversation, manners, health, friendship, pictures on the wall...
...however, was found ignorant of the fact that Commonwealth was founded, with the endorsement of leading Arkansas politicians and others, including Senator Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota, as a cooperative, "intellectually aristocratic" institution open to all men but specially designed (in cost) for workers, regardless of creed, color, trade, politics...
Writers of sporting articles are forever chafing themselves into a fine frenzy over nothing at all. It is their trade. Poor fellows, they must find something memorable in every tilt they see and a shred of Hector in every county champion. They are paid to make things seem exciting and in pursuance of their calling they resort to many sad devices so that when at last a moment occurs which, by its inherent humanity, is dramatic and blood-stirring, they have nothing left to say, and can only shake their heads, and tap out fustian phrases with their fingers. Last...
Like all U. S. voyagers in England, he enjoyed the quiet, the courtesy, the fine products of the English specialty shop. These, the result of intense retail competition, were typical of 19th Century British trade. It was pleasant to shop in them. But, to the mind of Mr. Selfridge, restless in retirement, they seemed expensive to operate, each with its separate overhead charges. The U. S. department store, while more raucous, was more economical and, too, more convenient for customers. It should be possible to merge the advantages of both the British and the U. S. systems of retailing...