Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with difficulty that one could stand up while the band was playing God Save the King, because we had a Hanoverian and not a Jacobite king." More significant was the rest of his background: upper middle class, Harrow-Cambridge, chapel-turned-Church, just the proper mixture of trade and land and what he proudly admitted were "second-class brains." With this equipment, plus a sturdy character, for three times as Prime Minister he ruled a Britain that distrusted brilliance...
...generous: in 1919 he gave $600,000, one-fifth of his personal fortune, to the state, to convince other rich men "that love of country is better than love of money." He could be generous, at the right moment, to political enemies: when his Tory followers demanded anti-trade-union legislation in 1925, he came out against it, with a Baldwinian peroration: "Give us peace in our time, O Lord...
...turbulent year in office, President Gabriel González Videla has gambled a lot, and always won. Last week, his victories over the Communists behind him, he was ready to gamble again. Just one year after signing the $175,000,000 trade agreement with Juan Perón (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946), he sent the treaty to Congress for ratification...
...gorilla chest and announce that he is the world's greatest bowler (TIME, May 5). A good many of the experts disagreed. They would rather bet their money on glum, gum-chewing Joe Wilman, 41, who was bowling man of the year in 1946 and went about his trade in very businesslike fashion. In Chicago's drafty Madison Street Armory last week, Andy and Joe staged a seesaw duel that made the bowling experts forget anything they had seen before...
...meeting, to which all interested students are invited, will investigate community sources of prejudice by visiting factories and housing projects, and will interview leaders of trade unions, business, and government...