Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refuses in practice to regard our government as legitimate in this country. Secretary Hoover, in a letter to the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A., gave his opinions, from an economic standpoint, on our relations with Russia. His points were: 1) that official recognition would not promote trade relations with Russia -other governments have tried the experiment and failed, 2) that all charitable relief can hope to do is "lift special groups from utter destitution up to the level of the general poverty," 3) that Russia must restore fundamental conditions of security and confidence before reconstruction...
...Department of Justice, which is now conducting an investigation under the Sherman and Clayton Acts to determine whether sugar speculators have been guilty of a conspiracy in restraint of trade...
...Federal Trade Commission, which, acting under the organic law which created it, is gathering data tending to prove that unfair competitive ethods employed by sugar gamblers render them open to prosecution...
...percentage of impurities in virtually all new mined coal going to market, charges the American, runs from 25 to 40%. The normal rate of impurities allowed by decent trade custom and considered unavoidable when coal is honestly prepared for market is from 2 to 4% in the large domestic sizes up to 10% in the steam sizes...
...next to Eugene Debs the most prominent radical in the country, was the first of the Communists to be brought to trial. The specific charge was violation of the Michigan state criminal syndicalism law. The prosecution contended that Foster was a member of an organization (the Trade Union Educational League, a subsidiary of the Communist Party) which advocated violence in overthrowing the Government of the United States. The star witness of the prosecution was "K-97," an agent provocateur in the employ of the Burns Detective Agency, who attended the convention as a delegate and turned informer on the defendants...