Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vuco Perovich, Montenegrin by birth, barber in Rochester, N. Y., by trade, who has constantly maintained that he would rather hang than spend his life in prison, was last week pardoned by President Coolidge for a murder for which he was convicted in Alaska in 1905. Mr. Perovich attracted attention in 1909 by protesting that his constitutional rights had been violated when President Taft commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. In 1925 a Kansas district court upheld Mr. Perovich's protest, so he was released under a habeas corpus writ and became an active barber. But, last June...
...Montreal, Mr. Baldwin prepared to hammer and thrust home his concept of trade unity within the Empire by peeling off his coat and vest before an audience of 800 businessmen, many clad in formal day attire. As his hearers gratefully followed the Prime Minister's example, he began to speak with vivid power, thus...
...businessman as Newcomb Carlton was taking so ambitious a stride in the cable field. But the science of communication has developed no faster than the demand for communication. The press especially will file heavily on Mr. Carlton's western extension and he sees the sun of U. S. trade fast rising in the orient...
...Mediterranean areas it may replace Rumanian oil has nothing to do with the question. That argument belongs to the red herring class unless Vacuum Oil Co. believes (which she does not) that because the Vacuum or the Standard of New York have decided to give (in their trade) Russian oil a preference over Rumanian oil, the Rumanian producers are going to curtail their production...
...Charles Spencer Chaplin as strong-armed, sympathetic major domo. But these circus addenda to the Tully autobiography (Beggars of Life, 1924) return to a milieu wholly comfortable for Mr. Tully, where he can exercise his storytelling ability with no private emotion more complicating than a half-hearted wish to trade his literary life for the disheveled simplicity of a circus once more...