Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World Almanac's Editor Eastman Irvine promises no immediate change, although he hopes a brand-new Almanac cover will celebrate next year's World's Fair. He disclaims intentions of accuracy for his map, says it should be considered no more than a trade-mark...
Last week the Guild's most persistent critic and its largest champion met head-on in public debate in Manhattan. Before a hostile crowd of 700, mostly Manhattan Guildsmen, up stood Brooklyn-born Arthur T. Robb, editor of Editor & Publisher, conservative journal of the trade. His opponent: mountainous Columnist Heywood Broun, national Guild president. The clash was advertised as the press debate of the year, but the forensics fizzled, for Mr. Robb spoke from a fact-jammed cranium, while Mr. Broun replied from an overstuffed heart...
...powerful trade union is succeeding where semiprofessional groups have failed...
...month The Beacon had as advisers such leading Chicago lights as Professor Paul Howard Douglas. University of Chicago economist, and Charles P. Schwartz. of the Chicago Plan Commission. Others, like Edwin L. Kuh Jr., a director of Chicago's Board of Trade, and President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, gave cash to keep The Beacon burning. Getting such hard-hitting liberals as Harold L. Ickes and Robert Marion La Follette to write for him, Factotum Harris soon found himself free to do an editor's job. His most constant local target was Chicago...
...Government asked for cement bids, the figures were almost always identical even to the fourth decimal point. Calling this practice price collusion at the expense of the consumer. Franklin Roosevelt tried to halt it with NRA, through the Attorney General's office, and finally through the Federal Trade Commission, which has been investigating cement for ten months. Impatient of results, Mr. Roosevelt last month directed that all Federal departments buy their cement through the Treasury's procurement division, that bids be restricted to an f. o. b. basis, that bidders be required to state in writing that there...