Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stiff Protest. Goaded by Tory ire, the Baldwin Government addressed a stiff protest to the authorities at Moscow last week complaining that the Anglo-Russian Trade Agreement of 1921 had been violated by the Soviet Government in despatching funds to the support of the British "general strike" (TIME, May 10 et seq.). No mention was made of funds now passing from Moscow to London? though £30,000 was thus added to the coal strikers' war chest last week?because the "coal strike" had not yet been officially declared "subversive" (as was the "general strike" but still retained the character...
Presumably endless correspondence will ensue between London and Moscow in an effort to settle whether the moneys in question were technically sent by the Soviet Government proper or merely by its closely interlocked Soviet trade union organizations...
Died. John Diedrich Spreckels, 72, after week of illness; at Coronado, Calif. He was the eldest son of the late Claus Spreckles, who expanded his Philadelphia grocery business to control much of the U. S. sugar trade. The sons?John Diedrich, Adolph Barnard (died 1924), Claus August (president, Federal Sugar Refining Co.) and Rudolph (spells his name "Spreckles," onetime fighter of California political corruption)?all went into the sugar business. John Diedrich. went furthest, developed the Pacific islands sugar trade, pioneered transpacific shipping to carry his products, broadened into finance, philanthropic and civic activities...
...belief that schools which concern themselves solely with the development of military or naval officers are becoming more and more impotent in matters of culture and intellect, that they are too often sending forth men Ill equipped in anything without the precise and narrow bournes of their particular trade, one considers any movement toward incorporating the study of military or naval science within the category of liberal education is a step forward in humanizing the military profession and giving to the nation an opportunity to reduce the military to its proper place in the college community without allowing the army...
...improving the world - the Junior League through charity, the W. C. T. U. through morals, church organizations through religion, still others by abolishing war, tobacco, etc.- not to mention organizations for women of special interests, such as the National Federation of Business and Professional Women, the Women's Trade Union League, the Association of University Women-associations of all kinds, touching one another on certain points and widely divergent in others...