Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Always he trades honestly, operates frugally. "You never see gulls following a Dollar ship," is one of his sayings. Another, "We have passed the day when swapping jack-knives was considered trade." Another, ". . . the Chinese trust me. I have never found a bad debt in China...
...restaurants' failure to serve meat, their pushing of vegetables and "health foods" (savita, salt substitute). Miss Charlotte Currie, downtown businesswoman stockholder, spoke for business womankind, now refusing to "Go Vegetable-wise," eating elsewhere than at Childs. Other stockholders complained of "stores fitted out like palaces" unable to draw trade; lack of display of the Childs' name; "water should be served with meals as in the past;" "Childs should advertise;" Childs' prices were too high; the New Year's Eve (1928) $1 minimum check "did the company more harm than good...
Died. Richard Woodget, 82, captain of the Cutty Sark, famed British clipper of the 70's, with which he made astounding records in the Australian wool trade (3,457 miles in eleven days); in Norfolk County, England...
...well worth a trip to the ninth floor of the Annex Building at Jordan Marsh's to see the collection of some two hundred modern French paintings which forms part of the general exposition of Art in Trade now in progress throughout the store. The paintings are shown under the official auspices of the Association Francaise d'Expansion et d'Echanges Artistiques and are a selection of works shown in Paris in the Salon d'Automne. They are all by contemporary French artists. With possible exceptions like Andre, Denis, d'Espagnat, Vlaminck, there are few names that approach being famous...
...Reorganization of the Levant Trade," Professor Usher, Widener...