Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opponents say they will not have these treaties. Very well, so be it. Those opposed to these treaties are opposed to a settlement with Russia and trade with Russia. If the House of Commons will not allow us to make these treaties, the House of Commons had better censure us. Office is a great honor, but office has burdens; grandeur very soon goes and drudgery accumulates, which stays. Still, it is a great thing to have served one's country...
...German viewpoint was that the tax would interfere with the working of the Experts' Plan and would otherwise complicate trade relations between the two countries...
...French contention was that Britain has imposed, for some years, a 26% import tax on German goods without complicating trade relations. France was determined, said M. Laroche, political director of the Quai d'Orsay, to put the new tax into effect. He pointed out that the Experts' Plan would not be interfered with. On the contrary, it would be helped. The tax would, said he, partially solve the transfer of reparation payments, because France would collect the tax from the French importer and apply the amount on the account of reparations due from Germany; while the importer would...
...might be exposed similar to several found beneath the streets of Washington. Just what the purpose of these mysterious passageways was nobody could tell; but everyone had his hypothesis. They were hiding places where German spies formulated their deadly schemes. They were avenues through which crafty bootleggers plied their trade...
Professor F. W. Taussig '79, of the Department of Economics, spent the greater part of his summer, "as usual", he said, in Cotuit. As for research, he stated: "I gave most of my time to the subject of international trade on which eventually I expect to publish something...