Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opportunity, to Chicago's necessity. Last week the Chicago potentates were considering taking .the city's affairs-debts, taxes, crime, public works and all-into their own hands and running Chicago the way Venice used to be run, by an oligarchy of wealthy, peace-loving trade-seeking doges...
...Orleans last week went the delegates of U. S. trade unionism to attend the 48th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor. Justly they felt important, for they represented more than 3,000,000 of the citizenry. The convention opened with overtones of optimism. Labor had heard about President-Elect Hoover's scheme to prevent unemployment, as outlined by Maine's Brewster at the New Orleans conference of Governors (see p. 13). Of this scheme William Green, President of the A. F. of L., had said: "It is the first definite movement to systematize wages & employment...
...degenerate!" rang with significance and power. Chinese know that the largest private army in the world-150,000 men-is maintained by Feng Yu-hsiang, and that he has inspired his soldiers to a remarkable degree with his own austere strength. Each soldier has been taught a trade. The whole army can support itself indefinitely upon the Chinese countryside in Liberty, Frugality, Fraternity...
...among them Major Barbara, are interesting for their people rather than their propaganda. Before any writer can portray Rummy Mitchens, a Salvation Army derelict, portrayed on the stage by Alice Cooper Cliffe, or Bill Walker (Percy Waram), he must have eaten humble cake in the mission houses of his trade. And before any writer can despise any human being as thoroughly as Author Shaw despises the son of his mouthpiece millionaire, it is necessary for the writer to have investigated him with the inquisitive sympathy of an artist, rather than the brief, scornful scrutiny of one who needs only...
...ancestors may have been famed violin makers or stone cutters of Italy, or sculptors whose talents have descended to a generation unrealized were it not for Greenwich House and Victor Salvatore, who lends his time and enthusiasm and wise counsel to the development of "The Arts of the Building Trade...