Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began. He always had a tendency to circle back to his beginnings. From Urbana where he was born (one of the numerous Urbanas, this one happening to be in Ohio) he went to Toledo and became a newspaper reporter. From there he went to Chicago, still at the same trade; then to Springfield, Ill., as a clerk in the State Department. There he studied law, was admitted to the bar, married? and from there returned to Toledo. There he was elected Mayor on an Independent ticket and held that office for eight years?through a maelstrom of strikes and political...
...political career started in 1900 when he was elected a member of Parliament for the Blackfriars Division of Glasgow. In business he was connected with the firms of William Kidston & Sons and William Jacks & Co., both iron merchants of Glasgow. He was also Chairman of the Glasgow Iron Trade Association...
...There is a Tammany Hall in this country in the drink trade which is as highly organized as the Tammany Hall in America. We are back in the condition that prevailed in 1916, when the national energy was seriously impaired by drink...
Lord Birkenhead, former Lord Chancellor, assailed with his famed invective the Labor and Socialist movements in Britain. His chief point of attack was on an Act of Parliament passed in 1914 which gave trade unions the right to raise levies for political purposes. This act, he said, also gave the union the opportunity of making their members support candidates who are not their choice. Commenting upon Labor and Socialist propaganda: " These men are our enemies and we are to fight them. I am appalled at their propaganda, and I am alarmed at the apathy of other parties...
...principal Soviet weapon throughout the negotiations was the threat of anti-British propaganda in the Near and Middle West; Curzon's weapon was the threat to terminate the Trade Agreement, upon which the Soviet places great reliance...