Word: cobbler
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HARVARD, Ill. -- James Rosselli, the corpulent Kenosha, Wis., cobbler who chased a census taker, was advised tonight that government census authorities at Washington had ordered Wisconsin officials to withdraw charges against him and exclaimed...
...year's shortest day, 60 years ago, in Gori, near Tiflis, a son was born to a poor, hard-working Georgian cobbler named Vissarion Djugashvili. The boy's pious mother christened him Joseph, after the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus...
...wedding down the back-stairs," of one Captain Vigoroux, famed in cigaret ads. Two tales, one about a dachshund, another about a Nazi dissenter who invented a seventh-class funeral, are not only funny but belong with the best satire yet written on dictators. In a story about a cobbler who belied the old proverb, Bemelmans combines entertainment for all members of the family...
...Andrew Dennison, a Brunswick, Me. cobbler, found the shoe business heavy going. His eldest son Aaron, a Boston jeweler, suggested that he try making paper forms for jewelers' boxes. Soon this side line was giving crusty Andrew Dennison a tidy living and in 1855 he sold the enterprise to another son, Eliphalet Whorff Dennison, for $9,000. From this humble beginning eventually sprang Dennison Manufacturing Co. of Framingham, Mass., today the leading U. S. paper converter, with $10,400,000 in assets and 1938 sales of $12,528,000 from a line of 9,000 items including crepe paper...
...Michigan imprisoned Alexander Ripan for life. The reason: a bullet which killed his farmer neighbor fitted the barrel of Ripan's gun. In 1929, Prisoner Ripan drove a truck out of the Jackson Prison gates, disappeared. In 1935, Michigan found him again, a well-behaved cobbler in East Chicago, Ind. Back to Jackson Prison he was haled...