Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...character with too great exactitude in "Martin Chuzzlewit" has met a similar fate in England. In the Yarmouth town council, it was proposed to name certain highways, Copperfield Avenue, Steerforth Avenue. Peggoty Road, and Barkis Road. One of the more stalwart of the councillors, Jack Salmon, fish salesman by trade, condemned Barkis as a "silly old pup" and a "drunken rascal with a red nose". He spared Steerforth his denunciation only because he did not know the gentleman's reputation...
...lively debate followed in which Dickens' immortal characters were discussed with the mud slinging of a political campaign. One would have thought that Steerforth was even then continuing his evil ways and that Barkis still pursued his trade of carrier. It is a tribute to the influence of the better element of the town that Mr. Salmon was at last convinced of Barkis rectitude and sobriety...
Christmas Trade Brings New Campaign...
...dispatches from New York announcing the arrival of 14 vessels off Rum Row, he said that he had heard of the renewed activities of the smugglers who are anchoring at a safe distance from New York, Boston, and the ports in the south in anticipation of a brisk holiday trade...
...however, Judge Gary has taken heart again from the Supreme Court decision and has suggested that the trade meetings between competing steel companies may be resumed without fear of the law. In behalf of the suggestion, Mr. Gary expressed his opinion that such meetings would serve to "stabilize" the industry. But it is doubted that he will sponsor the move by banqueting his competitors in the former fashion...