Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attacked the use of the Commission for partisan purpose. He told a gathering of economists in Manhattan: "The temptation will always be present to use it as an instrument for supporting and carrying out a given policy-one of high duties or of low ones, of protection or free trade...
...Aluminum Company of America has been guilty of contempt of court. In the rugged, trust busting days of 1912, a United States district court ordered the company to cease monopolistic practices. In 1924, the Federal Trade Commission brought in a report which cited well-founded evidence to prove the Aluminum trust had violated the court order in 1922. But the Statute of Limitations, which provides that contempt proceedings can not be instituted more than a year after the violation of the court decree, nullified the work of the Commission. So the Department of Justice was forced to continue the investigation...
...times have seen a peak of economic emphasis. It has not only been sensed like a rising wind but also materially felt like a rough stone surface; and the doctrine has followed that the pocket book parrates history. Thither has American historical literature tended. Professor Channing's works emphasize trade motives. Much of supposed revelation has been written of New England's rum and codfish aristocracy. Fiske's guileless picture of the Constitutional Convention, newer authors have reformed. The wealth, business, and lineage of the "Fathers" have been analysed to prove the Constitution but a bulwark of property. While...
...immediately began to oppose the established voluntary trade unions. In Moscow, when genuine trade unionists rebelled against communism, their leaders were stood against a wall and shot to death. Mussolini set out to crush the existing bona fide trade unions of Italy. Labor papers were suppressed, union halls raided, thousands sent to prisons and others disappeared. And now Mussolini points with pride to his victory in suppressing the workers' real trade union movement of that country...
...Executive Council hopes that none of the Italian members of trade unions will submit to the threats of the dictator. He and his Fascismo are as great a menace to the peace of the world as is communism...