Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compels him to buy in a highly protected market and to sell in a free world market." Amounts contributed by large manufacturers who are beneficiaries of the tariff prove the iniquitous character of the policy. 4) Republicans defeated farm relief in the 69th session. 5) Democrats favor "an honest trade law that will stimulate business by fair competition and produce revenue to the government instead of "a high protective tariff for the benefit of special interests...
...Stalin, installed him in the office which he has made the focus of all Russia, the Secretariat of the Communist Party. Last week M. Stalin ordered dropped from the Cabinet of Premier Rykoff-of which he, himself, is not a member-his onetime "Left Hand Man," Foreign and Home Trade Commissar (Minister) Leo Kamenev. Into the vacant Ministry stepped with effrontery and assurance one Mikoyan, like M. Stalin a Georgian, unlike M. Stalin, a mere pliant boy. As everyone knows, Gregory Zinoviev, the onetime "Right Hand Man" of M. Stalin, was expelled during the summer from the potent Communist Political...
...Judas went about his betraying in a long red beard, and Pilate could earn as much as ten shillings a week if he told his lines with a swaggering tongue. . . . In the Fifteenth century, roles were cast with a nice eye to harmony between the part itself and the trade of the man who was to play it. Plasterers created the world, shipwrights built the Ark, the chandlers were the Shepherds who carried the Star, butchers assisted in the Crucifixion. Christ, in one French play, had to recite 4,000 verses; in 1437 at Metz, during the Crucifixion scene, both...
...state; born in Bristol, schooled at Ithaca, where he got his start scrivening for the undergraduate Cornell Sun. But he would have been popular with the New Yorkers no matter where he was born. Smooth-faced, graying a little, just 50, his personality is of the kind that makes trade organs like the Fourth Estate lay it on thick about "integrity," "ideals," "sincerity," "inspiring confidence and loyalty" in explaining his "romantic" career. For three years he has been fighting Publisher Hearst over an Associated Press franchise in Rochester, and though victory is not yet with him, the Southern Tier...
...elegant Hebrew comedian about to do a vaudeville turn. It was thus that he appeared before the famed David Warfield on the day that he entered the show business. Mr. Loew was at that time a furrier. He had done well at the trade of transforming the skins of dead beasts into wraps for ladies, and had recently moved from his humble residence on Avenue B, Manhattan, to a more impressive flat on 111th Street. Mr. Warfield also owned a house on 111th Street but he did not live in it. It was an apartment house in which he held...