Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With such evidence before him, Commissioner Hirshfield could present Mayor Hylan with but one conclusion. There was, the former maintained, a "money super-power" which, although located in America, sought an extension of British trade, to this end it took up its stand behind all writers who were trying to bring England and America together. In order to accomplish this purpose, he argued, the propagandists tried to make the American people sorry that they had revolted, and thus to bring back this country into the British Empire. It was therefore necessary, Mr. Hirshfield explained, for them to alter the popular...
Always, Mr. Hoover works directly with the industry which his Department is trying to serve. For instance, his automotive chief was picked by the Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Working through 70 trade committees which he has created, Mr. Hoover now enjoys such confidence from business men as was never given to any of his predecessors...
...when he was elected to Parliament for the Bewdley division of Worcestershire. It was not until 1917 that he attained any degree of political prominence. In this year he was appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury, retaining that position until 1921, when he became Secretary of the Board of Trade. His fine business brain and the manner in which he had discharged his duties under the Coalition Government induced Bonar Law to appoint him as Chancellor of the Exchequer last Fall. This office he also filled with excellent busi- ness efficiency. His experience has not been great as politicians...
...sissy, developed a passion for the theatre and had several timidly distant affairs of the heart, which never got beyond the dumbly adoring stage. When not yet 15, he, like Keats, became an apothecary's apprentice, but an injured knee forced him to give up the trade and he returned to school, and later went to the University of Königsberg. Meanwhile, he had become somewhat of an innocent lady-killer, but an experience with an anonymous married lady of easy virtue brought its not uncommon legacy of revulsion and bitterness. Already he wrote in secret...
...subtitled " The National Weekly," has sent out an army of 1,000 canvassers. These canvassers visit the homes of all subscribers to the magazine, said to number 250,000. They are taking a poll on first choice for a successor to President Harding, and, incidentally, they are drumming up trade...