Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days last week the Chamber debated the famed Fascist Labor Bill (TIME, Nov. 30), which provides that in every art, craft, trade or profession, two Fascist syndicates shall be established, one representing capital, the other representing labor. Further it is provided that only these accredited syndicates shall have authority to settle labor disputes, and that all such disputes shall be compulsorily arbitrated by them...
General business continues on its even keel. Stability appears to increase and the weaker departments of trade improve, while the stronger refuse to develop boom conditions. Secretary Mellon's cheerful and optimistic report (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) no doubt expresses the sentiments of the average U. S. business executive...
...Undoubtedly direct orders for building materials, as well as the spendings by the many prosperous members of the industry, have proved a huge "back log" to the general prosperity. It also seems certain that any sharp cessation in building would prove hampering to the general course of industry and trade. This point is a good one to watch for in the numerous "outlooks for 1926" about to be revealed to the public by prominent business leaders at New Year...
Labor. Secretary James J. Davis condemned the overdevelopment in many industries, which results in their being shut down much of the time. He declared that 14.5% of the shoe factories, employing 60.4% of the labor in that trade, could if they worked 300 days a year produce 95% of the shoes needed in this country. He showed similar conditions in flour milling and bituminous coal mining, and declared that some legislative remedy should be found without creating monopolies. He recommended that measures be taken for the enrollment of all resident aliens as a means of check-up on those...
This girl is played by Helen Hayes. She is probably our most consistent flapper. And yet somehow you wonder how she can go on like that night after night talking synthetic slang and just being her very nice self. Katharine Cornell should trade her one of her tragedies...