Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Economic Policy, or NEP, as it is hastily called, permitted the reopening of private trade and speculation in marketing. Small cliques of vigorous and illiterate men have rapidly risen in each city through trade in potatoes and wheat. The cabarets and hotels are again flourishing under the patronage of these nouveaux riches. As yet manufacture has remained in government hands partly because of legal and political impediments and partly because of lack of sufficiently large accumulations of private capital. As a reservoir of capital is formed from commercial profits, the industrial field will soon cease to be monopolized...
Liberal. The Liberals start out by defining their position in the last Parliament, referring to the "Russian Blunder"(i.e., promising to guarantee a loan) ; it then deals with unemployment, housing, land, agriculture, coal and power, education, free trade, industrial peace, social insurance, prohibition, electoral reform, and ends: "The people have now a choice to make between three parties. It has an opportunity of putting in power a Liberal Government, which will pursue the path of peace, social reform, and national development, avoiding, on the one hand, unthinking resistance to progress, and, on the other hand, unbalanced experiments and impracticable schemes...
...Woll is one of the powers in American Labor. His committee of trade-union men pleaded that all prayer-books, religious literature and articles used in churches should bear a label signifying that it had been produced by American union labor...
Artists and Models. When the first revue under this trade mark appeared last year (TIME, Sept. 3, 1923), there were loud legal wranglings as to just how much of a chorus girl's costume a producer can legally eliminate. Disputes also arose as to the exact relations of wickedness and wit and to what degree the former is admissible. Accordingly, this year's edition was subject to stampede on the opening night. Those who wormed their way in (at $11 a ticket) found that the proceedings were neither as nude nor as ribald as those of the parent production...
President Butler, in his address to the Columbia School of Journalism, shows no appreciation of this struggle of the trade to rise into the ranks of the professions. He tells his hearers to cherish public opinion, and to guide it into the proper channels. Just how this is to be done Mr. Butler does not state. If through the news columns, any but the most impartial rehearsal of facts savours of something very like propaganda, which obviously has no place in a paper except on the editorial page, with which the average reporter has very little to do. Neither...