Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have put the world so very much in our debt, to insist on building up our merchant service is to deprive foreign nations of just one more method of meeting their obligations and to postpone by just so much the return of this country to its normal trade conditions. It would be well, therefore, if those in authority thought it over very carefully before they adopt government insurance or any other method of keeping alive this parasite on American industry. NORMAN S. PARSONS '22. January...
Through the generosity of Mr. Richard Sears '91, a prize has been offered for meritorious work in the Division of History, Government and Economics. The topic for this year's essay is as follows: Are Trade Unions a benefit or detriment at the present time to Labor...
During the war patriotic orators hailed with enthusiasm the construction of a huge merchant marine, with which, after the war, the nation was to secure the commercial supremacy of the seas. But the American fleet has failed to capture the trade routes from England and other European nations; while foreign tramp steamers are picking up cargoes here and there, sufficient to pay operating expenses, an undue number of United States ships are tied up at the wharves, a dead loss to their owners...
...government could provide insurance at a low rate, as was done for the army during the war, American ships would be enabled to operate on a more nearly equal footing with those of other nations, and would be prepared to take better advantage of any revival of foreign trade which occurs when the world is once more on a sound economic basis...
...whose career began in 1917 with arrest for burglary, sentence for which was mercifully suspended, was arrested for grand larceny in 1919 and discharged; for burglary in 1920 and discharged; for grand larceny in 1921 and discharged; for attempted burglary in 1921. Released on ball, he resumes his old trade...