Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adequate merchant marine has to be a new merchant marine." So wrote Franklin Roosevelt last week pointing out that no freighter for the foreign trade had been built in U. S. shipyards for 15 years. He asked Congress to provide 1) a $10,000,000 appropriation, 2) authorization to contract for $150,000,000 worth of ships, as a starter for his friend Joseph Kennedy, once head of SEC, now chairman of the Maritime Commission, charged with subsidizing the rundown merchant fleet of the U. S. into efficient operating order...
...week's end the Act was denounced from within the committee itself. Indiana's Democratic Representative Glenn Griswold criticized the wage-fixing provisions as "far more riotous than the NIRA." Nor would friends of Secretary of State Hull's reciprocal trade treaties add peace to the scene at the bland suggestion of the Act's coauthor, Representative William Patrick ("Billy") Connery Jr. of Massachusetts. He suggested that the Labor Standards Board would be given permissive authority to increase import duties if increased U. S. labor costs led to threat of destructive foreign competition...
...birthday has become one of Britain's most impressive spectacles, drawing thousands of gaping tourists to London. Not the least of sanctified George V's services to his empire was the fact that he was born on June 3, when the weather is fine, when trade is apt to be dull. A king's birthday in the fog and rain of December and in the midst of the Christmas shopping rush is poor business. No reason whatever was given for choosing June 9 as George VI's birthday but the natural supposition was that weather records...
...without any reference to hours of work or any fixed formula for its administration. These are the characteristics of the profession and the question which we must answer for ourselves and for the people is simply the question as to whether medicine shall remain a profession or become a trade...
...onetime Chicago lawyer who became general counsel for the old Orpheum Circuit, and got into cinema when the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation was formed in 1928, worked up to become president of RKO Studios in Hollywood until a year ago. Promptly dubbed "producers' tsar" by Hollywood's trade press, his $75,000-a-year job of being a clearing house for the whole industry's complex and continual labor troubles will last for three years...