Word: trading
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...adjutant-general, and in this capacity served in Cuba throughout the disturbance. During the governorship of Major-General Wood, Colonel Scott acted as chief of staff, and in 1903 went to the Philippines to become governor of the Sulu Archipelago. In this capacity he abolished slavery and the slave trade in the islands under his charge, and in a skirmish with the natives was severely wounded. On returning from the Philippines in 1907, he was appointed superintendent of the United States Military Academy with the rank of colonel. As an author Colonel Scott has been enabled from his intimate knowledge...
...nonmembers who draw no dividends on their purchases, yet whose patronage contributes to the amount of net profit available for distribution to those purchasers who are members. Sales to non-members during the year amounted to $117.000, an indication that a considerable part of the Co-operative's trade is not drawn to its counters by the expectation of dividends, but by the idea that quality, or prices, or both are more satisfactory there than elsewhere...
...breed and Indian story, in general plan like Mr. Lawrence Mott's work, with more accuracy but less picturesquencess and dash. In some passages the sentences are monotonously short. "Gentlemen and Seamen" treats of the old merchant sea-captains in New England and of Salem, the old seaport for trade with the East. The feeling in the article is good; but the imperfect workmanship and the tendency to moralize give the effect of a school composition. "The Friend," a sonnet, though not quite musical and at the end not quite clear, may be called a "lovable" poem for its fine...
...SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "The History of the Anthracite Coal Trade." Mr. Eliot Jones. University...
...SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "The History of the Anthracite Coal Trade." Mr. Eliot Jones. University...