Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Immediate creation of an Economic General Staff, (a MacDonald idea) modeled on Conservatives' Committee of Imperial Defense, to consist of the Lord Privy Seal, Chancellor of the Exchequer, President of the Board of Trade, and Minister of Labor. This staff will coordinate the work of all industrial and economic departments...
...Council appoints for each branch of industry a Commissariat, who receives a subsidy for the promotion of the business over which he rules. Both buying and selling is done not by individuals but by cooperatives. Co-operatives in Russia do not mean organizations of all members of the same trade. They are organizations of all trades in the same community. Thus a producer's cooperative in a given community would include steel men, grain men, textile men; would handle all the production of its district. In the same way, a consumer's cooperative would do all the buying...
...period is extremely vague, inasmuch as very few of the individuals now prominent in Russia were famed members of Tsaristic society. He was born in the Ukraine, studied at Zurich and Kiev (he is a Doctor of Philosophy), taught school. He emerged from Revolutionary chaos as Minister of Foreign Trade for the Ukraine (1917-22). He has served on the Supreme Economic Council and has been Amtorg's chairman since 1927. Trader Bron is married, has two children, lives in Manhattan...
Said President Katzenberg: "Abrupt price fluctuations are most devastating to dealers, tanners and importers. With the Exchange in operation there will be a ready market, and while the trend will be governed by actual conditions prevailing in the trade, fluctuations will be reasonably regulated and [traders] will have an opportunity to make hedge sales whenever they feel inclined...
Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou was dinner guest in Manhattan last week of the Men's Hat Trade and Allied Industries. The 600 celebrants were bidden to wear dinner coats. On the invitations appeared the warning: "The correct straw hat to wear with a dinner coat is a china split yacht." Men wise in the intricacies of hat-making, hat-selling (TIME, May 27) gave learned speeches. Cinemactor Menjou, elegantly representing the hatted classes, declared that no properly dressed man would think of owning less than a dozen hats. He himself, epitome of grooming, owned 22, had brought them...