Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are probably half a dozen states in the Union where colored votes could settle a Presidential election. Why not settle it? They can settle them [elections] in Chicago, Detroit, New York, probably in Cleveland, along the Ohio River. ... It is a scurvy trade to make a living out of politics...
...Francisco, peninsula port city, the Emporium Corp. is the largest retail concern; in Oakland, industrial city, railway terminal across San Francisco Bay, H. C. Capwell Co. is the leading department store. Last week they merged, will dominate trade among the Bay cities...
...shoe-laces). Bronson Alcott hit the road with tinware and almanacs instead of going to Yale. Worcester Polytechnic Institute was founded by John Boynton, onetime pack-peddler. The original soap Babbitt peddled razor strops. Benedict Arnold took woolens into Canada. Cherry rum, gingerbread and candy were the stock in trade of Phineas T. Barnum before, aged 25, he bought "161-year-old" Joyce Heth, "George Washington's nurse," and turned showman. Purloining a sheaf of his father's sermons, the notorious Stephen Burroughs tramped to one empty pulpit after another...
...ranging from the practical ideas of traders to the romantic notions of poets. For most of us, however, the East is thought of as a new discovery; a discovery that begins with the thrilling adventures of Marco Polo. Few realize the ancient connection between China and the west; that trade between Greece and Korea throve in the first century of our era; that in 1307 Pope Clement, V. constituted Pekin an archepiscopal see in favor of a missionary Franciscan: John of Montecorvino, or that purely Mongolian types appear in some of the Sienese paintings of the thirteenth century...
...this is by way of preface to the fact that today a student vagabond has the opportunity of hearing about the East in fairly early as well as modern times. Unfortunately, however, he must choose whether he will hear Professor Usher in Widener U on trade to the East in the sixteenth century of Professor Hornbeck in Harvard 5 on the United States war and treatles with China in the years 1844 and 1858, since both of them come at 9 o'clock...