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...Lord Catto also knows that an attempt to build up a great Sterling bloc in opposition to a Dollar bloc would be fatal to British interests. His training as a banker and as a trader put him inevitably on the side of those who in the long run wish to see the creation of a larger multilateral system of trade and investment in which Sterling and the Dollar are bound together. The question mark in his mind is whether the U.S., through its tariff and currency policies, will in fact help or hinder the growth of such a system...
...vote), the Italians, French Canadians, Poles, Russian Jews. Boston's best can and do keep the whip hand over bank directorates, and in the overstuffed gentlemen's clubs on Boston's near-sacred Beacon Hill. But what political power they still possess comes strictly from Yankee trader ingenuity. Thus, by enactment of the conservative state legislature, Boston cannot choose its own police chief-the governor picks him. And bluebloods.cannot elect a mayor in Boston, so they pack behind the Irishman most agreeable to them (like present Mayor Maurice Tobin...
Amelia Earhart, lost in the Pacific in July, 1937, rose dubiously in the words of a Marshall Islands native: "A Jap trader named Ajima told me that an American woman flyer came down between Jaluit and Ailinglapalap Atolls. She was picked up by a Jap fishing boat [and] taken back to Japan...
...Aklavik in the icy Arctic came Fur Trader Stan Peffer (also a hotel owner, grocer, theater operator, sawmill proprietor). In Edmonton on his annual business trip south last week he told a tale that sounded prehistoric...
...cooperation, however, is not enough to close the economic circuit. It is quite as important to get the advantage of pooled bargaining power in marketing as it is in buying. Waring & Teller belong to marketing cooperatives, and so get the cash benefits that accrue to the large-scale trader...