Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tenure of office of less than nine months. Labor has proved its mettle. Greatest are its accomplishments in foreign affairs, for in that direction most needed to be done. The recognition of Soviet Russia prepared the way for the international rehabilitation of that country and the revival of trade upon which the economic restoration of both Russia and England so largely depends...
...better known advertisers will of course maintain lobbies to influence the vote of the jury. Trade and Mark will be present, accompanied by their sister, Elsie, the stenographer's friend. The three wise men of the East will parade in all their glory in an endeavor to turn the vote of Klan members of the jury to Kollege Konstructed Klothes...
Meantime the cotton-mill owner, who had become optimistic, saw prospects of being able to sell fabrics spun of 21? cotton, received a severe jolt when the price went up to 24?. The stagnation in the textile trade has been due to a "consumers' strike" against the high prices charged for cotton goods. The refusal of consumers to buy at high prices cannot be changed until the raw cotton itself declines. Retailers refuse to stock up; jobbers are wary; and as a result unemployment is prevalent in the New England mill towns...
...Cramton Bill, passed by the House and now on the Senate calendar, which would take the Prohibition Unit out of the Internal Revenue Bureau and place it directly under the Secretary of the Treasury. They assert that it would hurt their industry if control of the industrial alcohol trade should be taken from the supervision of "the conservative internal revenue officers" and given entirely into the hands of "inexperienced prohibition agents whose time is largely given up to pursuing law ; violaters and who regard every user of alcohol as a potential bootlegger...
Provoked by recent discussions, in journalistic trade sheets, of codes of journalistic ethics, Editor Mencken launched forth upon a masterly historical account of the deliverance of journalism from commercial bondage. "The spirit spread like a benign pestilence and presently it invaded even editorial rooms. In almost every great American city some flabbergasted advertiser, his money in his hand, sweat pouring from him as if he had seen a ghost, was kicked out with spectacular ceremonies. All the principal papers, growing rich, began to grow independent, virtuous, even virginal. No - - - could dictate to them, God damn ! So free reading notices disappeared...