Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting were women teachers, lawyers, salesclerks, office workers, factory workers., Government employes, representatives of the American Federation of Labor, of the International Typographical Union, of the Boot and Shoe Worker's Union, of the United Garment Workers, of the United Textile Workers, of the Women's Trade Union League...
...thought. One group of business leaders is unable to forget that always in the history of U.S. business whatever went up had to come down again sooner or later, and that such periods of general prosperity as the present have always brought on a reaction in industry and trade. This conservative school is thus intent on finding out weak spots in U. S. business, and many of its members have thought the chief two are the construction industry and the stock market...
...world has often enough seen attempts to set up private monopolies, but it is not until recent years that we have seen governments revive a long forgotten relic of medievalism and of war-time expediency by deliberately erecting official controls of trade in raw materials of which their nationals produce a major portion of the world's supply, and through these controls arbitrarily fixing prices to all of the hundreds of millions of other people in the world...
...Trouble. In June, 1912, the U. S. Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania handed down, with consent of the Aluminum Co. of America, a decree forbidding that company to continue certain practices which were considered monopolistic in tendency. In Jan., 1922, the Senate ordered the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the Aluminum Co. to see whether it was a monopoly. In Oct., 1924, the Trade Commission made a report declaring that the Aluminum Co. had several times violated the Court decree of 1912. In Jan., 1925, the Attorney General (then Harlan F. Stone, now Associate Justice of the Supreme...
...morning at 10.15 o'clock Professor Albert Bushnell Hart '80, Eaton Professor on the Science of Government, will discuss "American Diplomacy: Treaties and Foreign Policy," in the opening lecture of the last day. Immediately following, Professor Arthur H. Cole Hon. '13, Assistant Professor of Economics, will speak on "International Trade and Tariff Problems...