Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, since it is responsible to trustees who are government officials the state university is exposed to many tricks of the political trade. More often then an endowed college it firms its policy to the caprice of press propaganda or less tangible ramifications of influence. But these circumstances should be to its leaders a challenge rather than an excise for truckling to vested interests. Certainly, no justification exists for the humiliation of student Reeve, whose single offense was the weaving of clever story about conditions in the zinc industry of his home town...
...Pronouncements tend to show that "big business" will be served up as the piece de resistance next fall. The alleged laxity of the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, and the protectionist bias oft Tariff Commission provide traditional issues with social implications wider than the mere corruption charge...
Senator from North Carolina, was accused last week by the able Washington correspondent, Clinton W. Gilbert, of having done a good turn for his college and his state. Senator Simmons is the senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. Mr. Gilbert accused him of being "an excellent trade," of getting in "his best licks behind the scenes." He went...
...professional nonage. Then he became a "publicity agent" and a "moulder of favorable public opinion." If there is anything an editor hates to do it is to give something for nothing, that is, empty space for heavy camouflage that should (he feels) be paid for at advertising rates. Publishers' trade sheets fuss and fume with "exposes" of "moulders" and "agents" specially dangerous to the publishing weal...
IDIOT MAN-Charles Richet- Brentano's ($2). Because he drinks, drugs, smokes, wears earrings, has venereal diseases, tattoos, castrates, circumcises, lets mosquitoes live, fears free trade and death, martyrs his great, razes his forests and does not talk Esperanto, and because all the while he knows better, therefore, fumes Prof. Richet, homo sapiens is homo stultus, most stupid of animals, God's idiot. Most of which is the ranting of a dyspeptic physiologist. Whole herds of bison, seals, penguins and other contented animals are cited in contrast to homo stultus, but in the heat of the moment...