Word: cobbler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ferdinand Pecora was born in Nicosia, Sicily 51 years ago. His grandfather trooped with Garibaldi. His father, a cobbler, took him to the U. S. when he was 5. He attended public school, started to study for the Episcopal ministry, turned aside to the law. In 1912 he campaigned for Theodore Roosevelt. In 1916 he voted for Wilson. Two years later Tammany gave him a job as deputy assistant district attorney. Until 1930 when he retired, his brains really ran that office where he was the principal courtroom prosecutor. He put more than a hundred "bucket shops" out of business...
...Good Father." Cardinal-elect Villeneuve cares for the second oldest see in North America, the one Writer Willa Gather made famous in Shadows on the Rock. His election as archbishop made certain his appointment as cardinal (TIME. Dec. 28, 1931). Son of a French Canadian cobbler, he is only 49, a tall, spare ascetic whom Ottawa called its "Good Father" when he taught there in St. Joseph Scholasticate and the University. Last June Archbishop Villeneuve admonished women to bathe in suitable costume, "a skirt reaching nearly to the knees ... a species of coat or cape which shields the shape...
Next to Henry Ford himself the world's foremost "Fordizer" has been Thomas Bat'a (pronounced Bahtya). Fifty-six years ago he was born to the wife of a poor cobbler in Zlin. He made Zlin the "Shoe Capital" of Europe. Last week he met his death at Zlin. One of his last philanthropies was a thumping gift which completely wiped out the civic debt of Zlin...
Direct and simple, the Bat'a saga is the story of a will-to-power. When he was 18 Thomas Bat'a, the humble cobbler's son, was managing his own shoe factory with 50 working partners. He drank milk, urged them to drink milk, ruled them for what he conceived to be their own good (and his) with a will of iron. Today Zlin boasts the largest per capita per day consumption of milk on earth...
...woodworker, and his wife Marie. Their first child they name Christophe, and he grows up to be a simple boy after the whole town's heart. Goundran, his fisherman godfather, shows him how to sail, to fish. Eusebe, the lecherous old drunken cobbler, tells him fairy tales. Especially does half-witted Anfos, his father's apprentice, worship him, seem to recognize some mystery about the boy. But to his little brother Loup and his cousin Jan he is just a playmate and friend. Now & then something happens to change their minds. At the sight of suffering, Christophe...