Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Baldwin's brief speech to the House of Commons on Tuesday left little doubt as to whether Britain or Soviet Russia had committed the breach of confidence. A police raid on Soviet House in London secured conclusive evidence that the Russian trade officials, under cover of commercial activities, had used their facilities as a center for the Red International, that vaguely sinister organization devoted to military espionage and subversive activities throughout the Empire, and North and South America as well. Communist agitators were trained on ships of the Russian trading companies with a view to subsequent service on British...
...passed; but the mysterious motives of the Soviet Union have not yet been brought to light. The United States, as things stand at present, does more business with Russia than England has been doing with the facilities she afforded the agents of Moscow; and it would seem better to trade ex officio with a viper than to give him headquarters in the official bosom...
...although not exactly a necessity to the maintenance of the national economic security, the student's capabilities are being realized. This however, is a minor point. The important thing is that the undergraduate's summer has become steadily more active and less sedentary. He may enter some trade or engage in agricultural work, if he is financially able, he may roam the seven seas. But rarely does he commit himself to the vegetation which was his wont. He appears to have reached the conclusion that there is no code which forbids him adding to his stock of knowledge...
...state legislature is to consider a bill making grain elevators public utilities. All Illinois grain warehouses would be under joint control of the state and the Board of Trade...
Chewing tobacco, ten-cent store vegetable knives and brass wire were the items carried by P. T. L. Putnam '25 in his recent trip to Dutch New Guinea; and intelligent use of this stock in trade enabled him to bring back to the Peabody Museum an interesting and valuable, collection of articles used by the natives...