Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aggregate sales of the firms reporting to the Harvard Bureau in the four trades that are now appropriating funds for its research--three retail and one wholesale--last year totaled more than one billion dollars. Already this year more than twenty-seven hundred problems have been collected, on labor, factory management, advertising, retail-store practice, banking, foreign trade, etc. Doctor Copeland says that the difference between busines and law is that law is six hundred years ahead of business in recording decisions. But the University workers are confident that as we go along further it will be found that investigators...
Delegate William F. Dunne, blue-shirted Communist leader from the Silver Bow Labor Council of Butte, Mont., indicted associate of W. Z. Foster, was expelled from the Convention, without any Gomperian steamrolling, 27,838 votes to 130. Dunne was charged with destructive designs upon trade unionism, on the strength of a speech he made in Portland ridiculing the Convention and its leaders...
Imperial Preference. Imperial Preference is (roughly) the granting of a preferential tariff on imports within the Empire. Sir Philip Lloyd Graeme, President of the Board of Trade, said that if the Dominions and the mother country worked together they would be able to realize a development throughout the Empire comparable to that which had taken place in America. Subsidiary subjects to Imperial Preference discussed: settlement and adjustment of the population, industrially and agriculturally, financial cooperation within the Empire. General Jan Smuts, Premier of the Union of South Africa, basing his speech on the necessity of providing for the American debt...
With the adoption of the Federal Reserve System, a great effort was made to create in the U. S. an acceptance or bill market similar to that in London. After reaching a climax speculatively in 1919-20, however, the acceptance business began to decline. First, the widely-urged trade acceptance went into the discard; next, the volume of bankers acceptances sharply diminished. One by one, the acceptance firms which had blossomed in the great days of our foreign trade boom four years ago lost their earlier enthusiasm. Some went over wholesale to the bond business...
...colonies, on the other hand, are ready to support the mother country as they did during the war. But quite naturally they expect some return. They have asked the Imperial Conference in London, that in return for opening their markets to British trade and their land to British immigration, England's markets may be protected for their raw materials. This means the end of Free Trade, it means, in fact, economic isolation like that of the United States. And, as an indication of the British mind in the matter such protection has already been granted in some minor articles...