Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saying farewell to Walter Runciman, hard-headed president of the British Board of Trade who had come to discuss a Reciprocal Trade Agreement (TIME, Feb. i). Franklin Roosevelt presented that longtime shipping man with one of his treasures, a three-foot model of the four-masted schooner Shenandoah...
Huckster's Trade. Educator Hutchins was not the only reformer to speak last week to the New York Bar. A speaker who "conceded that the prestige of the legal profession has been rapidly sinking in the public mind during the past quarter of a century" was the only salaried "proctor of the Bar" in the U. S. He is Karl A. McCormick, 50, of Buffalo, N. Y., whose job as watchdog of the Western New York judicial district was created last year by the New York Legislature to check the qualification of Bar candidates, investigate charges of unethical...
...wanted to keep in bounds quite as much as prices was internal opposition to the "little NRA" outlined by the Dry Goods Association directors at Atlantic City last autumn (TIME, Dec. 7). Put up to the membership last week, the proposed platform called for minimum wages, maximum hours, fair trade provisions and a ban on child labor-all on a voluntary basis buttressed by State statutes. Coming as it did right after the election, the proposal looked -ike a shrewd attempt to head off Federal regulation along the same lines. When presented to the assembled retailers for approval, it raised...
Prizeman Rockefeller also acts with notable success as weather adviser for Howard Hughes. ¶ Aviation is a trade magazine eager to call attention to the little famed but highly important topic of maintenance. To 36-year-old Walter Andrew Hamilton, maintenance superintendent of Transcontinental & Western Air, it gave a bronze plaque for being a leader in maintenance improvement, being first to develop a maintenance manual as efficient as the operation procedure, first to insist that aircraft makers design not only from a flight aspect but also with an eye to ease of maintenance. At Kansas City, hefty Prizeman Hamilton heads...
...Alumni Bulletin's latest number carries an article entitled "Shrimps and the Harvard Tercentenary" written by Lionel A. Walford, '31 of the Bureau of Fisheries. Part of it is reprinted below. In the introduction to the excerpt quoted, Mr. Walford points out that the trade of the smaller independent fishermen, the Boston trawlers and the Maine lobstermen suffers a let-down in winter...