Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perspective. To fit the Tariff into a broader economic perspective, Chairman Hawley pointed out that the total domestic trade of the U. S. averages 90 billion dollars per year, foreign trade nine billions. Of this foreign trade, five billions are in exports, four billions in imports. Of the imports two and one-half billions come in duty free, one and one-half pay tariff. In short, only about 1½% of all U. S. trade is in the form of competing foreign commodities, dribbling over the top of the tariff dam. The dam is important, not because of what comes over...
Another step in the direction of the Five-Day Week, predicted by Contractor Fred T. Ley (TIME, May 6) and many another observer of U. S. labor, was taken last week when the Manhattan Structural Steel Board of Trade granted the Five-Day Week to 2,500 ironworkers. An increase in pay-per-hour insured workers of no decrease in wages. Manhattan electricians and bricklayers had previously won the Five-Day Week battle...
...Thomas J. Mooncy and Warren K. Billings, trade-unionists, were accused and convicted of murder after a bomb which killed ten, had been thrown into a San Francisco "Preparedness" parade. Later evidence seemed to prove them not guilty. Their judge and nine of their ten living jurors have since declared them guiltless. California has not reconsidered their case, which is now before Governor C. C. Young for a pardon. To propagandize in their favor a national "Mooney-Billings Committee" has been formed. Among its members are: Harry Elmer Barnes, Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Glenn Frank, Alexander Meiklejohn, H. L. Mencken...
...been crusading in his newspaper. The journalistic world rang with the news. The U. S. press was not content that two of Editor Mellett's murderers should be given life sentences and two condemned to 20 years in prison. At the suggestion of a journalist, Editor & Publisher, trade weekly of the Press, started a campaign for a Don Mellett Memorial Fund. Journalists were asked to contribute; laymen were invited...
...report to make on Canton: "I can tell you tonight, because I have seen it with my own eyes within a fortnight, that Canton is still, this minute, cursed by a tenderloin - a loathsome well-identified district of vice and crime where the scarlet woman plies her trade, where the illicit traffic continues and where dope may or may not be sold. I am told that the Federal authorities (not local police) have latterly fairly well stopped the narcotic traffic. The mayor of Canton is C. C. Curtis, elected by the people since the death of Mellett, although...