Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader was Mr. Justice Hugo LaFayette Black. The case involved the right of the Federal Trade Commission to prevent Standard Education Society from advertising, as a free gift for subscribers to its $69.50 loose-leaf supplement service, an encyclopedia which the F. T. C. had found normally sold at $69.50 with no charge for the supplement. In his opinion, in which all of his eight colleagues concurred, Justice Black ruled for the Commission, gave an outline of his reasoning...
Calling for the offer of a trade treaty to the United States by Great Britain as an "earnest" of her sincerity, William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, in a radio broadcast last night defined the position of "The British Empire in World Politics" as that of maintaining peace at any price...
...pressure which gives a workman who emerges too quickly cramps and pains called "the bends." Using his brain as well as his shovel, Sand Hog Bedaux was able after a few years to begin living the American success story of which he had dreamed in France. The new trade of "efficiency expert" had fired his imagination and he invented the Bedaux System of "B (for Bedaux) Units" now defined by Webster's Dictionary as "A system of wage payment in which work is subdivided into units equivalent to the number of minutes that a task should take...
...forelock down, sticks out his upper lip, and shows a paunch (artificial). Magnificently he drives into Poland where, changing horses at a village near Marie's estate, he gets his first look at her. Count Walewski (Henry Stephenson) does not much care for the plan that his wife trade on the Emperor's interest to help Poland, but she tries it anyhow. When she interrupts Napoleon's ardors with a patriotic supplication, the Emperor becomes irritated but keeps her in mind. On his next trip he wins her heart with his dream for a United States...
...comedy yet written about Hollywood. After its preview, violent protests were made by rival organizations. Twentieth Century-Fox felt uneasiness because Joan Blondell burlesques Shirley Temple singing "The Good Ship Lolly-pop." Report had it that the character of Director Koslofski was a damaging caricature of Josef von Sternberg. Trade papers tittered that Stand-In laughed at the motion picture industry. The last is true, but the laughter is large, warming and contagious. Stand-in is not an acrid satire like Once in a Lifetime or Boy Meets Girl, but a panel of broad, sure dimensions. It shows the bottom...