Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...service in that post violate an ancient statute saying: "No . . . Secretary of the Treasury . . . shall directly or indirectly be concerned or interested in the business of trade or commerce or be owner in whole or in part of any sea vessel...
...face red with apprehension, he pointed an accusing finger at the locked double doors of the House Ways & Means Committee behind which Republican committee members were secretly writing a new tariff bill. Mr. Garner charged that through the doors had seeped many a fact by which shrewd men in trade could profit. Such leaks, he cried, were "unfair . . . unjust . . . not right . . . wrong . . . indefensible!" Republicans calmly retorted that, if leaks there had been about the new tariff bill, they were "unintentional." Certain tariff facts loomed large in ad vance of the bill's presentation: Sugar. The prospect of a higher...
...last week some very pessimistic information about the Reich was vouchsafed by an expert known to have the ear and confidence of U. S. President Herbert Hoover. Indeed this expert, Dr. Julius Klein, was responsible for building up under Secretary of Commerce Hoover one of the most favorably-known trade in formation bureaus possessed by any state. He has just returned from a series of conferences with U. S. commercial attaches in Europe. President Hoover welcomed him home by promoting him from Director of the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce. When studiously self-effacing...
...England and France enjoy an advantage over Germany in rehabilitating because they have enormous colonies. Both countries are doing their utmost to make their colonies great buying centres for the products of the homelands. As a result of this. England's trade with her dependencies is 46% of her total export business, while, before the War, it amounted...
...great auditoriums, it also throws open the stadia and amphitheatres which now dot the country. In the U. S. May brings with it Festivals Weeks everywhere; June, July, August bring symphony concerts and opera al fresco. In Europe, more and more cities and villages are bidding for tourist trade with musical programs...