Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representations were recently made by Gisaku Takigawa, President of the Kobe Chamber of Commerce, to the Government in Tokyo, asking for the resumption of trade relations as means of improving Japanese commerce. For this step Takigawa has been suspected of Bolshevik sympathy, and, it is reported, he was put under police surveillance...
...Chicago Tribune, however, reports that the Japanese Consul General at Vladivostok is negotiating with officials of the Far Eastern Republic for the removal of Russian bars to trade. The suggestion of exchanging trade commissioners is put forward, the Japanese to be stationed at main Siberian ports and at Moscow, and the Russian at Tokyo and important Japanese ports...
...character-determining machine which has been approved by the faculty of Northwestern. This device enables the psychologist to determine the qualities of a student by means of two pedals and five levers. News despatches do not make it clear whether the machine in question is sold under the trade-name of Ford or not. Of course, the Ford has long been recognized as a test of character. The inventor of the Northwestern machine divides humanity into four classes: 1) the man who knows it all, 2) the man who asks advice when anything goes wrong, 3) the nervous individual...
...Francisco Board of Education is apparently still doubtful as to the propriety of replacing German in the schools. The German Government is, of course, vitally concerned as to the outcome. And it has been suggested that the students in the schools who expect to trade or travel or study have a certain interest upon their own account...
...normal for this season of the year, but business leaders are inclined to think consumption has begun to overtake production, and that further increases in the rate of output would be for a speculative purpose alone. Wages are generally rising, however, and in general profits in industry and trade seem likely to diminish. The rise in sugar, with its considerable political reaction (see page 2) provided the center of interest and discussion...