Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Churchill's financial policy was launched by Laborite Lees-Smith, an economist. The attack followed the usual technical theme of stating that the Chancellor was conserving the gold standard by an embargo on foreign and colonial loans, which, of course, means that Britain cannot, under existent conditions, stimulate trade without granting credits in the shape of loans. This accusation of a false policy was interesting for the clear-cut reply which it evoked from the Chancellor...
Baron Hayashi, Japanese Ambassador to Britain, called upon Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain at the Foreign Office. Both men dipped pen into ink, signed an Anglo-Japanese trade treaty...
...PLEASURE BUYERS-Arthur Somers Roche - Macmillan ($2.00). The creatures of Author Roche step right out of the more lustrous cosmetic, hosiery, neckwear and tobacco advertisements of our day-glossy-skinned puppets gliding through syncopated situations with all the smooth perfection that the Roche trade-mark guarantees. Herein the plot clots around a Palm Beach super-sheik with four yachts (named for the four winds), a pugilist-butler and a string of seductions that would put Casanova back in the kindergarten. Also present: a wronged War hero, a guileless moth, a seasoned misconductress. Who daggered the super-sheik...
...gone out of college professors in these days of alumni control, teaching unions, mass education. Survivors of Yale '83, for instance, recall how they were circularized their senior year with copies of The New York Tribune in which was marked an editorial attack upon the ardent young free-trade professor: "Men who are really able are not often inclined to substitute insolence for argument, "? They recall his reply: "The protectionists get lachrymose. . . . They sigh to think that young men are growing up who assail political saints and economic quacks...
Canadian Professional. Dominion professionals played their trade championship as the usual curtain-raiser to the Canadian Open. Leading U. S. professionals seldom mix in this affair. Last week it was won by Percy Barrett (Lake Shore Club, Toronto), 145 (36 holes) ; Dave Spittal (Savannah, Ga.), 147; Nicol Thompson (Hamilton, Ont.) and Fred Miles (Mississagua), 148 each...