Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge assured inquirers that he would approve a budget provision to continue the Federal Trade Commission's investigation of the political and financial activities of interstate public utility companies (power trust). The latest development in this inquiry was the refusal of the Electric Bond and Share Co., wide-ramified holding company, to surrender information sought by the Commission. If the case gets into the courts the Commission's work may be so delayed that the promised appropriation will not be spent for years...
...States retain and operate its power and nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala. President Coolidge killed the bill by pocket-veto. Nominee Hoover embraced the Coolidge policies. Nominee Smith's stand for government control of water power is as well known as his first name. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission discovered to what extent the power lobby had been manipulating to make water power safe for privateers. The Republican platform and acceptance speech ignored, the Democratic platform and acceptance speech denounced, these manipulations...
...George B. Quincy, who described himself as a traveling salesman selling flavor extracts and coloring material to a trade composed 95% of bootleggers in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and New England, wrote to the New York Times (Democratic) last week and deposed that of 289 inquiries he made among his customers, only seven revealed votes for Nominee Smith. Said Salesman Quincy: "Thirty-one of my customers have shown me cancelled checks they have contributed to the Republican National Committee. Seven . . . contributed to the Anti-Saloon League...
With President Hibben's approval, the undergraduates instituted a boycott of Princeton's shopkeepers, whose chief subsistence is the undergraduate trade. "No Vote-No Trade," "Recrimination for Discrimination," cried campus signs. This phase of the affair was reminiscent of the origin of it all. Last year the Princeton undergraduates were not allowed to vote in a mayoral primary election. Reason alleged: one of the candidates was Benjamin Franklin ("Bacon") Bunn, keeper of the co-operative store on the University campus. Another candidate, a onetime faculty member named Van Nest, believed that the students would pour out to vote...
...years he has devoted himself entirely to the work of a trade union official, assisting in the development of industrial relations and education upon the subject. His career in connection with trade unions began in Wercester, where by 1893 he had rapidly risen to the presidency of the molders union shortly after the beginning of his affiliation with the organization. In 1896 he was one of the vice-presidents of the Massachusetts State Federation of Labor and for 24 years he occupied the position of editor of the International Molders Journal...