His department seethed with blockade runners who traded "upon the miseries of the country".
Credit is about belief, after all, which is something that devisers of fiction as well as of financial instruments trade upon.
For all of its spirited desire to entertain, "Tour de Farce," currently at New Jersey Repertory Company here, never really faces that test; the conceit that the authors, Philip LaZebnik and Kingsley Day, trade upon betrays them before that point.
Federal prosecutors said that for the last decade he traded upon his office, receiving "corrupt payments" from people or organizations that had business before the state and sometimes threatening those who resisted his requests for money.
Ironically, it's a soulless job, using God as a commodity to trade upon and to exploit the needy and gullible, and it takes its toll on them in different ways.
But in the years after he was promoted to the administrative staff, in 1988, he began to trade upon that reputation in order to rehabilitate the men whose heads he had so often pummelled.
The S.E.C. has begun an inquiry into whether news of Standard & Poor's pending downgrade of United States government debt was leaked, and the information traded upon, before it was officially announced in August.
It is an effort frankly directed to the increase of American trade upon the axiomatic principle that the government of the United States shall extend all proper support to every legitimate and beneficial American enterprise abroad.
Indeed, when Col. John Van Deusen Du Bois on Dec. 8 angrily ordered "all Cotton-Speculators, Jews and other Vagrants having no honest means of support, except trading upon the miseries of their Country" to leave Holly Springs, and gave them "twenty-four horrs or they will be sent to duty in the trenches," Grant insisted that the Draconian order be rescinded.
