Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President of the Board of Trade Oliver Stanley and Sir John Simon, an appeaser from way back, swelled the chorus, but the strangest note was struck by Sir Francis Lindley, onetime Ambassador to Japan, longtime foe of Soviet Russia, stanch friend of and host to Mr. Chamberlain. Sir Francis told the Conservative Party's Foreign Affairs Committee that British prestige would rise if the projected pact with Russia fell through...
...getting its hands on the Czechs' $30,000,000, the Reich would receive enough gold to offset one or even two months' unfavorable trade balance...
...paid as high as $50,000 one way. Ships in ballast find it cheaper to return to Europe around the Cape of Good Hope. Worried Englishmen, who see the bulk of Canal tolls going into French pockets, while cutting down British profits of the Asiatic and East African trade, suggest tolls based not on tonnage but on draught, abolition of the tax on passengers, 50% rebate for ships in ballast. But they are not worried enough to sponsor the Italian demands for an international commission to run the Canal. They want no Axial partner sitting over the life line, even...
...London last winter the Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman was guided to apply to the Board of Trade for incorporation as a limited company. Reason: it was legally nonexistent, could not collect a ?500 legacy willed to it (TIME, March 20). When the Group's application was made known, wigs hit the green. The Oxford Union, the Oxford Hebdomadal Council and A. P. Herbert, M. P. for Oxford, protested that the Group's use of the name Oxford was misleading. Numerous other M.P.s got into the row, pro and con. Supporters pointed out that...
Jamie Ferguson fled Scotland when the Stuart cause brought disaster on its adherents. He joined an uncle in Suncook in the Province of New Hampshire, learned woodcraft under old Toby, an Indian. Successful in the lumber trade, he married Dorcas Drew, lived to regret it. After he joined the Rangers of his friend, Captain Robert Rogers, Jamie fought in campaigns around Lake Champlain and Ticonderoga, while Dorcas dallied with his intriguing, traitorous Cousin Hubert, a British officer. Jamie hardly minded, but when Hubert's dark eye fell upon Purity Stiles, whom Jamie now loved, that was a different matter...