Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side, shoppers had to stand in line while customs men opened all packages, weighed the meat, collected ration points and duty. In one day last week 17,500 U.S. shoppers were examined, 1,200 had to surrender 39,000 ration points and $1,400 in duty. U.S. Customs Collector Martin Bradley had to add 15 men to his staff...
...Volksgrenadiere (TIME, Dec. 25) are his creations, and their members are under his control until committed to action. Although Goebbels holds the imposing title of Reich Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort, in that role the little man is simply Himmler's assistant, a sort of glorified collector of old clothes, hardware and bric-a-brac for the Army...
...their joint task Jacob was the indefatigable collector, Wilhelm the devoted editor. But the purpose of both was to preserve intact the rhythms and patterns of a primitive, oral literature. Their first publication, in 1805, was a collection of folk songs, Des Knaben Wunderhorn. The following year Napoleon overran Westphalia. Jacob, who spoke French, got a clerkship in the war office and in 1808 was appointed superintendent of King Jerome Buonoparte's private library. The job assured the brothers an income with which to continue their life work...
...American City Lines, Inc., a subsidiary of National City Lines, Inc., top holding company in the Fitzgerald chain, the brothers bought the stock of the $50,000,000 Los Angeles Railway Corp. from the estate of Henry E. Huntington, one of the builders of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and collector of art, books and legends. A group of 14 investment banking firms bought the Railway Corp. bonds. Total purchase price: over...
...collectors of art-and of quotation marks-a critic-collector-connoisseur of modern art has compiled a booklet of such pungent, provocative aphorisms: Of Art-Plato to Picasso (Wittenborn; $1.50), published last week. Compiler Albert Eugene Gallatin, a painter himself, knows well the vicissitudes of collecting. His own famed "Museum of Living Art" is one of the finest collections of 20th-century...