Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ramsey MacDonald, the Laborite Leader of the Opposition, by 285 to 190 votes. Subsequently Mr. Lloyd George condemned the proposed dissolution as " ill-considered, precipitate, foolish." " Can lobsters, crayfish and crabs," he demanded in referring to the results of the Imperial Conference (TIME, Nov. 19), "bind the Empire by trade? It is a tinker's policy. The Government is going to the country with a tin can tied to its tail...
...certainly no more than just that these Croesusos should pay for the trade which the Volstead Act throws their way. But if they were less short sighted and would open their hearts to Mucha's benign example, tax collectors might be more leniently disposed and the public might cast a bland smile upon them. For everyone loves a cheerful public spirited giver, even though he rob Peter to pay Paul
...Classical Greece is an ambitious undertaking, more so, one feels, even than a History of the World, because, where such a History may skip, or may state bare facts and drift on, here one must stop and interpret master achievement in universality. War, Politics, Philosophy, Economy, Letters, Art, Trade, it is like taking "all mankind" for one's business...
Those in change of Economics 9b, Professor 'Taussig's course in international Trade extending from November to April, announced yesterday that the arrangement of dates was not "for the benefit of organized athletics". The novel plan, they declared, was simply intended as an "effort to utilize the afternoon hours more effectively during the winter season...
...concern of France is for ultimate security: of England for an immediate recovery of trade: of Germany for the preservation of her threatened existence. All three demands are of the utmost urgency. For meanwhile, pending their reconciliation, German children starve. France is reduced to arming herself on a pre war scale, and England staggers under debt, unemployment, and taxation. Worst of all, the hatreds are being fostered which make...