Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Volstead Act is "a jackass statute. Any law that declares buttermilk to be an alcoholic beverage, of necessity is a jackass statute." That the country and Congress would vote Dry-except for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. That "Governor Pinchot [page 5] has endeared himself to the hardware trade with his talk of padlocks [for saloon doors]. I predict there will be a boom in that commodity in the Keystone State." Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama is the only Democratic candidate whose boom for the Presidential nomination is openly and actively under way. His enterprising political manager issued...
British newspapers recommended the report of His Majesty's Trade Commissioner as being "more tactful." The report, published in The Board of Trade Journal, said in part: "Bermuda and the Bahamas are enjoying exceptional prosperity at present owing to their tourist traffic and other resultants from proximity to the United States...
...City (of London) that 1,251,600 persons were on the unemployed list. Expenditure undertaken or instituted by the Government to relieve unemployment, according to Sir Montague are: road and bridge building to the extent of £14,000,000; authorized assistance to local authorities, £10,000,000; trade facilities, £12,000,000; railway companies, £10,000,000; total...
...side or the other wins, or whether both win and lose in a tie matters much at the moment but less and less as time effaces the record. One thing important does remain, however--that two large and significant colleges have rejoined and reopened a valuable relationship. As trade follows the flag, so in this instance it may be hoped that social and intellectual intercourse will follow the football team...
Mussolini's conscience has not always seemed so scrupulous. He may have some deeper motive than he has cared to express. Unquestionably, his stock will rise in the public exchange when he has properly "earned" his degree; and it is one of the tricks of his trade to "get" the public by Napoleonic methods. But whatever may lie at the bottom of his action, he is setting a valuable precedent, which others may wisely follow...