Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week, before the Germans should arrive in their pomp (see p. 16), Il Duce slipped behind the wheel of his little sports car, whizzed out of Rome to do at Pomezia (see map) a bit of informal work as a stonemason- which used to be his trade...
...bulk of Eire's farming population the most important provision was the tearing down of tariff walls. When the retaliatory tariffs were instituted in 1932, Irish farmers lost their English markets, Anglo-Irish trade tumbled from $400,000,000 a year to only $210,000,000 in 1937. Last week's treaty practically brings Eire into the British Empire's Ottawa tariff group, provides that all Irish goods enter Britain duty-free while only certain British goods have the same privilege in Eire. The only ones who had no reason to acclaim this re-establishment of virtual...
...March 1937 by the predominantly Progressive Wisconsin Legislature, as a result of a State licensing law for automobile dealers which brought out the fact that certain features of the dealer business were interstate in character and therefore outside State regulation. Gardner Withrow's proposal was that the Federal Trade Commission investigate monopolistic features of the relations between automobile manufacturers and dealers. Congress passed the resolution last month and Franklin Roosevelt, always glad to investigate monopoly, quickly signed...
Others besides Gardner Withrow had suggested prying into the dealer business. Year ago the National Automobile Dealers Association, to which belong 10,000 of the 45,000 U. S. dealers, petitioned FTC for a fair trade practice code. About six months before the American Finance Conference, a trade association of independent automobile finance companies, instigated a Department of Justice investigation of the trade practices of the four factory-affiliated finance companies which do 75% of the new car business. Charges of dealer coercion were presently brought against the "big four" in Milwaukee, but the case fizzled when the judge discovered...
This convention, attended by 850 dealers, was for the primary purpose of drawing up a fair trade practice code for submission to the FTC for approval and promulgation. FTCommissioner Charles H. March was on hand to help. But his place in the sun was definitely overshadowed by Gardner Withrow. With the FTC scheduled to begin its investigation of automobile monopoly five days after the N. A. D. A. convention ended, stocky, heavy-jawed Sponsor Withrow appeared in Detroit to explain it. What he had to say was the most vigorous tongue-lashing the automotive industry has had from a Congressman...