Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Taussig has for many years been closely in touch with the problem which is to be discussed. He is the author of a "Tariff History of the United States". "The Silver Situation in the United State", "Free Trade, the Tariff and Reciprocity" and several other works...
...names of the various concerns with which connections were made for the men, and the number that entered the respective fields: accounting five, advertising four, banking 61, bond, mortgage, and loan two, business manufacturing educational institution one, Business School five, engineering one, executive assistant one, film company three, foreign trade three, grocery company one, hotel management one, insurance five, manufacturing 26, office management two, public utilities 15, real estate two, retail department store 19, sales 11, statistical six, teaching 12, textiles three, transportation three, bank examiner one, investment council three, government two, law one, publishing one, army and navy...
...this candid, concise, lucid statement one more proof that Count Volpi epitomizes the best type of self-made Italian business man. Sprung from an old but untitled Venetian family, he was obliged when a boy to earn his living by manual labor. Came an opening in the Levantine shipping trade, and he plunged into a career during which he built up a great chain of trading establishments between Italy and the Near East. Rich, potent, he turned from business to devote himself brilliantly to affairs of state. Premier Giolitti entrusted to him the negotiation of the peace treaty which followed...
...grace and attractiveness of desk sets added this autumn to the holiday madness through which fountain pen manufacturers pass at the end of each year. For some reason the retail sellers of the pens & pencils always underestimate their holiday trade. Stocks run low; telegrams and long distance telephone talks beg for shipments...
Finally, the Empire's settled conviction that Stanley Baldwin always means well is as a pillar of potency to the members of his Cabinet. It enabled Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks to bring off in triumph the safe-blowing raid by Scotland Yard on Soviet trade headquarters in London (TIME, May 23), even though Sir William later admitted that the police did not find the "stolen State papers" which they were supposed to be seeking. At present, the Secretary of State for India, the Earl of Birkenhead, is drawing heavily on Mr. Baldwin's impeccable moral...