Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business of finance and economics practiced by the Cahalys is more or less intuitive, and stems from their earlier days in the trade. About forty years ago, the four brothers--Michael, Fred, Ralph, and Jim--doffed their burnooses and left Damascus. They had been operating an export trade there, supplying the Syrian-American population here with rare and costly Oriental delicacies. Arriving in the United States, they merely took up at the Western end of the line and continued doling out Levantine merchandise to New England Near Easterners...
...arguing point. Up until 1946 the questions of entrance into the UN and its allied organizations, and the British lean were essentially political, involving little divergence from accepted American over the counter relationships with the world. But the issued within the next two years will be tariffs, reciprocal trade agreements and lesser foreign loans. A continuation of the Roosevelt-Hull line would force Republicans to break with their past. On these little publicized subdivisions of policy, the country has less assurance of Republican views than on their UN stand. It must be remembered that Senator Taft, the new Majority leader...
...majority party is again talking protectionism, led by its House majority leader, Joe Martin, long-tie friend of the "protected" Massachusetts shoe interests. This Republican line is fairly consistent: a majority of the G.O.P. Congressmen and Senators followed Taft's prodding and voted to kill the reciprocal trade agreements. Down the line on foreign economic questions, Republican voted in Congress are solid evidence of the party's reluctance to match world political leadership with the dollars and cents to make this leadership effective...
...Darling Clementine (20th Century-Fox) is horse opera for the carriage trade. Directed by John Ford, who made the smashingly successful Stagecoach eight years ago, the new picture invites comparison to that old near-classic. And Clementine does indeed closely resemble Stagecoach. Nonetheless it is a rattling good movie full of gusto, gunplay and romance...
...kindly say no more about a new book." When Publisher Norman Warne, who had fallen head over heels in love with his shy little author, responded with a proposal of marriage, Mr. Potter was horrified. He forbade the marriage on the grounds that no daughter of his should marry "trade...