Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Bull-slayer Villalta, earner of $50,000 per annum for plying his trade: "I find that my audiences now expect me to completely despatch the bull in a maximum of 20 minutes. . . . Never, during my American tour, did I disappoint them...
...have no grievance against your custom of designating a man by his title when it refers to his trade or profession. Had you designated Mr. Smith as "Lawyer Smith" or "President Smith," I would have disregarded the whole matter. I am not so narrow-minded. But when it refers to a man's religious convictions, I think it is a gross insult and is deserving of an apology on the part of the offender. Had you referred to Cardinal Hayes or Rabbi Wise as "Catholic Hayes" or "Jew Wise," I dare say that you would have been subject...
Furnace Case. Famed, also aged, the seven-year-old Claire Furnace Co. case last week bobbed up before the U. S. Supreme Court for tho third time. It involves the right of the Federal Trade Commission to compel manufacturers engaged in interstate commerce to supply monthly information concerning the condition of their business. The Supreme Court ruled that a bill enjoining the Trade Commission from enforcing its orders should have been dismissed by the District of Columbia Supreme Court, jurisdiction lying not with the courts but with the U. S. Attorney General. The decision, limited to the technical question...
...Ohioan aged 50, Professor Young, taught at Wisconsin, Western Reserve, Dartmouth, Stanford, Washington Univ., Cornell, before going, in 1920, to Harvard. In War-time he directed the War Trade Board research bureau...
...draperies will pay the rent; and if such staples are less in demand one month than another, the fripperies, on the other hand, may well serve to keep the woll from the owner's Italio-Greco-Romanesque facade. The Advocate has profited by by this axiom of the trade, and in the last two years has built up a study skeleton of departments--editorials, book-reviews, the special article, and the rest that insures a certain variety to any issue, whatever the quality of the accidental "contributions" may be. As your reviewer galloped through the April number of the Advocate...