Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steel strikes of that year. He was later convinced that the I. W. W. program was too radical to be practical. He became an organizer for the American Federation of Labor, unionizing railroaders, stockyard workers, steel hands. His program for Labor included education of trade-union members to make them fit for political action. He turned Communist about five years...
Full Week. Customers of New York Stock Exchange houses, particularly those trying to trade from the Pacific Coast, clamored against the recent five-day trading weeks and last week's four-hour trading days. The Western traders, being hours away from Manhattan, lost precious time for making, and losing, money. Manhattan operators lost commissions. That was one factor that induced the Exchange to resume full day & week trading. Another was that trading last week was lighter than in a very long time. And another factor was that Wall Street bookkeepers had in a measure caught up with their...
Chicago Board of Trade voted 795 to 116 to trade in corporate securities as well as in grain. This vexed members of the Chicago Stock Exchange which handles only securities...
...will be my purpose and the function of the institute to provide for intelligent individual business management, operating independently, an opportunity to do business at a fair profit and on a basis of wholesome competition, and to see that the industry conducts itself entirely within the law, eliminates unfair trade practices and provides a maximum of service both to the industry and to the public...
...withering the fruit of her foster-mother's womb, and of casting a fatal ailment upon her beloved foster-father. When God ignores her challenge that He restore this good man's life, she believes herself indeed a witch, and sets herself weirdly to learning the trade. Straws and hairs and fingernails are stuff for fantastic poppets; Ahab, the neighbor Thumb's bull is fit to make a virile familiar. In answer to her prayers that the Prince of Darkness send her a tutor in the black arts, there appears nightly a demon disguised in the swarthy...