Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inverting a famed trade slogan, Dr. Faunce declared: "Hundreds of American students are held back by mental conditions of which their best friends are often unaware." The appointment of "the best men in the medical profession" was expected to save unbalanced Brown students from the tender mercies of the psychiatrist, from whose diagnoses amateur introspectors have been known to derive harmful results, trying to "live up to their characteristics...
Advertising. Nine years and a 500% increase in newspaper advertising-Director William A. Thompson of the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association was telling the Federal Trade Commission last week. In 1925, $720,000,000 was spent on newspaper advertising-$500,000,000 by local merchants, $220,000,000 by national sellers. Advertising agencies placed considerable of the business; in fact it "would be suicidal to advertisers" to do away with the present agency system, according to Manager Lincoln B. Palmer of the association...
While the government has been busy seeing fair play among general industries, it has pursued an equal policy of moderation in that seat of all trouble, coal mining. Premier Baldwin's conciliatory offer seems in a fair way to be accepted by the associated Trade Unions, if not by the more radical leaders among the miners. Certainly, the Premier's proposal, based on the Coal Commission's report represents a solution which will protect the public as well as the two rival factors of production. The subsidy, which drains the common treasury for the sake of a single class, will...
Even as it is, the trade unions are legally in an insecure position. Having broken contracts in order to engage in the orgy of sympathy, judges may decide that the associations are liable for the damage done their employers by the delay. If such a decision were made the financial power of labor would be crippled for years to come, a possibility jeopardizing the vast improvement of the working man's position...
More probable is it that the moderates will restrain the legal offensive against labor even as they have restricted the direct attack. In trade unions when they apply themselves only to local conditions, one finds a valuable counter-irritant to capitalism. In the matter of hours and wages, the union aids in striking a fair balance with the employer...