Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that time-worn but in this case extremely appropriate fable of the fox and the grapes. I feel called upon to ask why he should have interested his famous Tangos to be played by a "Village Band," why he should indulge in a play of terms like "sheet-music trade, "familiar restaurant repotory," and "a tender and devoted skill," and why as a candidate for position of Conductor of the Pierian Orchestra last fall, he should now cry for another Davison...
...school in Heidelberg and received there a modest education which he supplemented by voluntary attendance in some of the University's lecture rooms that were open to the general public. At the age of 15, he was apprenticed to a saddlemaker and, while thus employed in learning a trade, joined an organization of youths known as the Young Socialists. This was perhaps the first step of any importance in his life...
Having learned to wield the saddle-maker's awl and, in his spare time, the pen, he forsook his trade, went to Bremen and became a journeyman. In Bremen, as is most of Germany's seaports, Socialism was finding hospitable entertainment in the hearts and minds of the common people. Young Ebert soon became identified with the Socialists and was to be seen most Sundays haranguing crowds on the merits of Marxian philosophy* but for all his energy he passed for a man of mediocre ability...
...interest must still lie with the power of the press. In choosing his trade H. R. H. might have become a bricklayer. Certainly the emolument of that profession is higher. But the Prince remained true to literature; and any future protestations of literary indifference may well be taken with a grain of salt...
...Confirmed the nomination of William M. Jardine, President of the Kansas Agricultural College (TIME, Feb. 23), to be Secretary of Agriculture, George A. Parks to be Governor of Alaska and William E. Humphrey to be a member of the Federal Trade Commission...