Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleased delegates proceeded to trade each other all sorts of useless knowledge. From Harold W. Bentley, managing editor of American Speech, they got a report on names of U. S. towns and cities. Samples: Social Circle, Wide Mouth, Jingo, Sleepy Eye, Matrimony, Hot Coffee. University of Virginia's Professor Atcheson L. Hench delivered a scholarly discourse on the history of the term "stark-naked" (from start-naked, literally: buttocks-naked). Most superbly useless piece of information given to the convention was a paper on The Pronunciation of German Surnames in Potosi, Wisconsin...
...improve the economic status and promote the social understanding of any people or nation that will teach the subject adequately to its youth. The peoples of India or China are restrained far more by ignorance of simple biological truth than by unfamiliarity with letters, arithmetic or the rules of trade...
...Trade Winds (Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy; TIME...
When a curious Commissioner asked Mr. Myers how the compromise valuation figure was arrived at, Mr. Myers replied: ". . . by general discussion. . . . These are the tricks of the trade, and I get paid for them. I'm not going to educate...
Last week Chairman Bartlett announced from the rostrum that Broker Sisto had been suspended because he was "guilty of conduct . . . inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade." This is the Exchange's worst condemnation, the same it applied to Richard Whitney. In Joseph Sisto's case there was apparently no public-loss: he did only a limited brokerage business, carried no margin accounts, and was mainly interested in underwriting. The Exchange charged him with juggling J. A. Sisto & Co.'s books to make his personal trading account look unprofitable; he was also accused of arranging...