Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This competition affords an exceptional opportunity for the candidates to gain a knowledge of business methods and the relation of the retail trade to the consumer, not only from the personal but from the newspaper advertising standpoint. This knowledge of business and the experience gained will be of great value to the candidate, whether or not he wins the competition...
...doubt the call for resumption of trade with Russia will be heard louder than over in the United States, since Great Britain has completed arrangements with the Soviet Government concerning mutual commercial interests. Enthusiastic publicity agents like Washington D. Vanderlip, no matter how unreliable, always inspire further efforts in souring seemingly valuable foreign markets. Yet it is well to think twice before venturing into any sort of commercial relations with the present Russia. The question with the United States is wholly economic, which is unlike England's case, if we are to believe the report that Great Britain enters into...
...present the administration refuses to abandon its policy which allows private citizens to trade with Russia individuals or the Government, but in no way undertakes to guarantee the privileges which an American could expect from any foreign nation in good standing. The word of Soviets is all that binds contracts, all that protects American interests. Business men of this country would prefer the protection of the United States in these matters; they would profit from the advantages of an official understanding with the Soviets. No wonder that ambitious money-makers depict Russia in alluring colors as the very model...
...fanciful pictures of Russia wealth extremely doubtful we after led more and more to ask why we should enter into relations with a moneyless, creditless country, whose government has almost nothing to offer for the guarantees which would come from us. Can we believe that the economic advantages of trade with Russia are so great that we should rid ourselves of all aversion to Soviet ideas and enter into an agreement--which involves recognition--for the sake of a gain as uncertain at bottom as Bolshevist Russia itself...
...field for Americanization is so broad that there is a place for all agencies that can be interested in the task. At present many patriotic societies, chambers of commerce and civic organi- zations, foreign clubs and societies, settlement houses, trade unions, industries, public libraries, women's organizations, sectarian organizations, and public schools are actively engaged in the work...