Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent years Landis has been prominent in activities connected with government control of business, serving at various times before his return to Cambridge last fall on the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities Exchange Commission...
...people who write this material are, in spite of a continual campaign to get in new blood, a fairly constant band of professional "slick paper" magazine writers who make from $5,000 to $250,000 a year at their trade. Incorrigible highbrows criticize the Post's taboos (par for middle-class conception of decency anywhere), complain that in its non-fiction no intellectual rivers are ever set afire, in its fiction no Buddenbrooks appear among the Clarence Buddington Kellands. This is old stuff to Editor Stout's staff. Nowadays they respond simply by handing out a reprint...
Managing Director Earl Constantine of the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers finally issued a warning to his trade: a silk stocking boycott would hurt hosiery mills because lisle stockings wear four times as long as silk and 42,000.000 dozen pairs of silk stockings annually would shrink to ten or twelve million annual output if lisle were substituted...
...carnage in the first issue shows a hypnotized man with his lips pierced with pins, kosher beef being slaughtered, a bloody nose-bobbing operation. Most of the rest of the magazine is chiefly suitable for decorating the walls of a college fraternity house-layouts "unmasking" the white slave trade, why Toms peep and at what, finally a section devoted to colored illustrations of off-color jokes and "French art studies...
Dean Landis has in recent years been prominent in activities connected with government control of business. While a member of the Federal Trade Commission in 1933, he helped draft the Securities Act. In the next year he was appointed to the Securities Exchange Commission, and became its chairman in 1935. He held this post until his recent return to Harvard...