Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college trained man with perseverance and ability, the South American trade offers opportunities for advancement and broadening commercial experience unequalled in any other branch of business," was the advice given by Mr. E.A. de Lima, president of the Battery Park National Bank of New York, in a recent interview, Mr. de Lima, who has been serving as the chairman of the United States Sugar Board, is known on Wall Street as a leader in the movement to establish firmer commercial relations with the South American countries...
...other business and few professions offer as broad a commercial education as the exporting business. For the successful exporter must be familiar not only with the mechanism of international trade, but also with the industries whose goods he exports and with the general financial situation. He who has served an apprenticeship with an exporting house will find that he has had a training which will make him an asset to any business...
...this reason he must be prepared to start at the bottom and realize that advancement, until he has mastered his trade, will be slow...
Radicals contend that society is dividing into two rival classes; the middle-class trade unionists would apparently split it into three. If they are aiming, as they assert, to protect the consumer, they have overlooked the fact that capitalists and laborers are also consumers, who share the public interest equally with those persons who are eligible for middle-class trade unionism...
...success: the middle-class trade union must draw largely from intellectuals, teachers, and professional men. These men have for the most part very divergent interests. Moreover, they are the most individualistic element in society. Organization for them would be impractical on the one hand, and distasteful on the other...