Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rise of The Sugar Trade", Professor Usher, Widener...
Conservatives have been grooming "Old Gwilym" for years in his role of bait, have twice tried and failed to get him elected to Parliament from a worker constituency, are trying again. In 1927 he championed with jovial humbuggery the Trade Dispute's Act-probably the most tyrannical piece of legislation ever passed in England to squelch strikes...
...those with jobs and time to ponder questions of Empire, Mr. Lloyd George appealed by begging them to turn out a Conservative Government which, he said, had hamstrung England's trade with Russia and provoked the U. S. by bunglesome handling of the Coolidge naval limitations proposal. From this the spellbinder swung through a long transition to the surprising statement that the Conservatives "made a foolish, reckless settlement of the British debt to America [in 1923] without waiting for an international settlement which would have wiped out all debts and started the world afresh...
Professor Young was one of the world's leading economists, an authority on markets, tariffs, distribution, obstacles to the free movement of trade, and export and import problems. He was head of the Department of Economics at Harvard until 1927, when he went to England to become professor of political economy in the University of London. At the time of his death, he held a prominent place at Geneva as president of the sub-committee on commerce and marketing problems of the preparatory committee, for the international economic conference of the League of Nations...
...World War found him director of the Bureau of Research of the War Trade Bureau, and in 1918 he was chief of the Division of Economics and Statistics of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace...