Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recognition of the Soviet Government by the Labor Administration of Great Britain has been reflected in the U. S. by a revival of proposals for future trade with Russia. Hitherto Russia's purchases of American cotton have been made via Bremen through German middlemen. This made American goods more costly to Russia, and limited her credits here. Now the All-Russian Textile Syndicate, Inc. - a Manhattan agency of the All-Russian Textile Syndicate of Moscow-has been set up to deal directly with American exporters, and obtain credit directly from New York banks. In cotton this new arrangement makes...
...Representatives, who was officially reprimanded for reporting to his Creator that: "Our courts are corrupt; God has been expelled from out churches;--our boys and girls are going to the dogs; our laboring men are going to work with empty dinner pails, while our farmers starve, and the middlemen wax fat on exorbitant prices . . ." Whether the Colorado Legislature considered it presumptuous to tell God what He must already know, or whether they thought it indiscreet to disclose just how far things had gone in "God's Own Country", is a matter for conjecture. Nevertheless, the fact remains...
...Eliminate Middlemen...
...business. Their grievance, said Senator Ladd, in perfectly legitimate. It is predicted that within a few years this country. With all its land and all its gigantic market system, will have to import food on a large scale. The reason why this will happen is the existence of the middlemen. The whole market system huge but too complex, is ran and for the benefit of this unproductive class, which battens on producer and consumer alike. A farmer gets $1.50 for the wool that goes to make up a suit for which we pay $80.00 the difference goes to the middlemen...
...this system that there is meeting in Chicago at a future date the Committee of 17, together with representative from eighteen of the northwestern sates. This assembly will approve and set about putting into action scheme for marketing wheat by the organization of farmers rather than by manipulators and middlemen, the capital being supplied by subscriptions from the farmers themselves...