Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reality Premier Duplessis is being used by these elements of reaction in order to put the quietus upon trade union activity, upon the growing unrest caused by the swelling of the ranks of the unemployed. Hence Duplessis' refusal to cooperate with the Dominion goverment upon a scheme of legislation for Unemployment Insurance...
...Weakening or withdrawal by the Fatherland from the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo "Axis," the Army being convinced that Italy will desert Germany in the next war as she did in 1915, and that in the Far East it is clearly to Germany's interest to build friendly relations and trade with China...
Blind ex-Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma heard loud metallic scrunchings and raspings, suffered painful bruises and cuts when a Washington, D. C. ash truck shattered his automobile, driven by Mrs. Gore. Also shattered were the Gores' hopes of a good trade-in on a new car waiting for them three blocks away...
Early attempts to get the U. S. to join in international cartels were thwarted by the anti-trust laws. But in 1918 the Webb-Pomerene Act was passed which had the effect of enabling U. S. businessmen to join up provided that no restraint of trade within the U. S. was involved. U. S. businessmen joined up both officially and unofficially in many cartels, including those for heavy chemicals, rubber and copper. But steel has refrained chiefly for the reason expressed by onetime President W. A. Irvin of U. S. Steel: "With 49% of the world's capacity...
Clearly vexed that the move to organize chambermaids had been less successful than expected, Mrs. Gordon Thompson, President of the Women's Trade Union League, vented her anger on the "inside union," and insisted that the University put a stop to it. "They will not convince me until then that official Harvard is not party to it," she said...