Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bernard Shaw drew his quill as an electioneer. To the Student Leader, a pamphlet issued by the Labor Club of Glasgow University, he contributed an article supporting for the rectorship his veteran friend of many Fabian battles, Sidney Webb,* sometime Labor Cabinet member and President of the Board of Trade. As the two other candidates were Austen Chamberlain, His Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Gilbert Keith Chesterton, famed Author-Journalist, Mr. Shaw did not lack distinguished targets for his shafts...
...Webb and his brilliant wife (nee Potter) are the authors of a standard work, The History of Trade Unionism, and are probably the greatest authorities on municipal affairs in Britain and certainly the greatest Socialist-economists of their time (TIME, July...
...this group Harry Pollit is notable as "the ablest Communist in Great Britain." At the International Trade Unionist Conference at Scarborough (TIME, Sept. 21), he was one of those most instrumental in rushing through the "motion of censure against the British Empire," which so alarmed reactionaries. And it was he who cried that, because of the machinations of the Conservatives, "every inch of the Empire is drenched with blood...
...Moscow last week the Russo-German Trade Treaty (TIME, Oct. 12) was signed by Acting Foreign Minister Litvinov and the President of the Russian Treaty Negotiating Committee, M. Ganetski, for the Soviet Union; and by the Ger. man Ambassador, Count Brock-dorff-Rantzau, and the President of the German Committee, Herr von Kerner, for Germany...
Ever since Walter P. Chrysler took over the dilapidated Maxwell Motor Co. and, after rechristening it with his own name, made of it the sensational motor producer of the past two seasons, his opinions on the whole motor industry are taken very seriously indeed, in and out of the trade...