Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Across the ocean, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, President of the British Board of Trade, assured the House of Commons last week that his organization would begin an investigation of the Vestris disaster as soon as arrangements could be made...
...Maniu of Roumania, in taking America, the golden goose of Europe, as his model for the reorganization of his country, has the eyes of the world upon him. His task is likely to be an irritating one, for when he accomplishes his proposed removal of obnoxious taxes on foreign trade and foreign capital, the holding of "fair elections," and provisions for a clean government, he will already have outstripped his model. By strict adherence to it, he can do no more than develop tariff battles, intervention policies, brass-knuckled good-will trips, Smith-Vare disbarments, and an oil scandal...
Grain. Forty-four years ago Chicagoans took pride in their new Board of Trade Building at Jackson Boulevard and La Salle Street. Antiquated, this building was last week abandoned, to be replaced by a $20,000,000 building on the same site. Centre of grain trading for 44 years, the old building has seen trading in eleven billion bushels of "cash" grain, amounting to 6,000,000 full freight cars. Here P. D. Armour, Joseph Leiter, James A. Patten and many another operator became famous. Here Arthur Cutten, prominent in Wall Street's late bull market, took the title...
Patten: Board of Trade. Chicago grain traders last week mourned the passing of the old Board of Trade building at Jackson Boulevard and LaSalle Street and the death of James A. Patten, one of the men who did most to make that building famed. Operating on a large scale from 1890 to his retirement in 1910, Mr. Patten is credited with being the only man who ever established corners in all four of the major markets-wheat, corn, oats and cotton. Though prosecuted under the Sherman Law for acting "in restraint of trade" Mr. Patten always denied that...
...code requests that violations of its provisions be taken up with the proper "regional committee" of the American Petroleum Institute and should also be referred to the Federal Trade Commission. Thus the oil companies, though establishing their own board of arbitration, are attempting to cooperate with, rather than to take the place of the Federal board...