Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interjection. Said Pennsylvanian Reed: "This is absolutely unnecessary.* This is unwise if we are to pay any atten- tion to the Pan-American idea." And Senator Fess (from Ohio, like Mr. Willis) cautioned: "It will disturb our relations."; New Mexican Bursum added : "We had $200,000,000 trade with Mexico last year. We may have $1,000,000,000 soon." A last vain attempt to close the border was made by West Virginian Neeley: "Why shut out the golddiggers of Italy and citizens of Norway and let in the bull-baiters and toad-eaters from Mexico?" But the border terror...
Sometime ago, Great Britain negotiated a trade agreement with Soviet Russia but withheld recognition. The whole arrangement proved unsatisfactory...
...cotton trade is wondering if a somewhat similar fate may not be in store for our cotton planters. Owing to three successive short crops, the world price for cotton is extraordinarily high, and there is every encouragement for foreigners to undertake cotton growing. The scarcity of American cotton has been due to the boll weevil and the shortage of labor in the cotton belt...
...primarily to reproduce the entire resources of the Commonwealth and thereby stimulate trade. The United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the Colonies each have special pavilions in which to display their natural, commercial, industrial and artistic resources. One of the features of the Exhibition is the Palace of Engineering, covering an acreage six times the size of Trafalgar Square, in which some 300 engineering firms will have displays, and upon which the entire Exhibition will depend for its power...
...Klux influence back of the measure. Said he: "You seem to forget that only the other day your ancestors were alien, the sons of England, and France, Ireland and Scotland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and other lands. Wherever the immigrant has gone schools have sprung up, industries have flourished, trade has increased, wealth has multiplied, prosperity has bloomed and patriotism, peace, law, order, intelligence and happiness follow in his footsteps...