Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idle ships. So T. V. O'C. spoke. His plan: The U. S. Treasury should pay a bonus of $20 per month to every American who works on a ship which is bought by a U. S. firm from the Government and which is used in foreign trade. His arguments...
...What do we intend to do about education, about our form of government, about the control and development of industry about immigration, poverty, crime, disease? Every man takes some part, or refuses to take a part, in forming our social policies in these matters. At elections in professional and trade associations, in church activities, these problems confront us. No one can escape the results of social policies about the criminal law, the housing regulations in cities, the management of the public schools. Therefore social ethics is concerned with social policies as well as with the discussion of right and wrong...
...good unless somebody learned to play it. So the Gershwin family hired a teacher for George, then 13. Came the day when he played for Max Rosen, famed violinist. Mr. Rosen patted him kindly on the shoulder, told him that he had better learn a trade. Another musical gentleman, who had been troubled by hearing his practicing, advised him to study in Europe...
TIME New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Jim Fisk was a tin peddler from Pownal, Vt. Not he, but Daniel Drew, sold watered stock at the Bull's Head Tavern. Selling watered live stock by weight was an old trick when Mesopotamian cowboys used to trade, in the wine-rooms, at Ur of the Chaldees. It is much if you do not mix up Daniel Drew* with John Drew.† Jim Fisk&** with John Fiske.†† NEWELL MARTIN...
...Italian discussed trade at lunch...