Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pinky (Lee Dixon) and Barry (Ross Alexander-) trade the songs they write for tailoring service, even piano rental, until a producer putting on Broadway shows with Hollywood backing is willing to advance $50,000 for their masterpiece, Fair Lady, provided they can sign the English singer, Jane Clarke (Winifred Shaw) for the lead. The anxiety of Agent J. Van Courtland (Allen Jenkins) to get 10% of Jane's $1,500 weekly salary leads him to sign up the wrong Jane Clarke (Ruby Keeler). This Jane, neither English nor a singer, accepts the misrepresentation because it offers her an opportunity...
...when Patrick Kennedy was born in East Boston, U. S. clippers were carrying 66% of the nation's trade. By 1888, when Pat Kennedy was running a saloon in and the politics of Boston's Ward 2, ironclad steamers manned with cheap labor had sent U. S. shipping to Davy Jones's locker and only 13% of U. S. foreign trade was being carried in U. S. bottoms. That year Pat Kennedy...
Joseph Patrick was born. By 1914, when Joe Kennedy was a hard-working Massachusetts bank examiner two years out of Harvard, U. S. shipping had hit bottom, was carrying only 8% of U. S. trade...
...prices from $2 to 25? a disc. Last week this comfortable industrial balance was altered as an independent producer prepared to bring two more labels into U. S. music shops. Irving Mills, music publisher, band manager and a power in Tin Pan Alley, was getting ready to offer the trade his Master Records (75?) and Variety Records (35?). American Record Co. was furnishing the technical facilities and distribution for the expected 75 titles a month of Mr. Mills's recordings...
Test case of the constitutionality of New York's Feld-Crawford Fair Trade Act of 1935 was Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., publishers, v. Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935). No facts were disputed. Macy's admitted selling books at prices lower than those agreed upon between Doubleday, Doran and its retail affiliate. New York Supreme Court Justice Frederick P. Close decided Macy's could sell books at whatever price it chose, declared the Feld-Crawford Act unconstitutional (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935). Opined he: "The act attempts to give to private persons unlimited...