Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, fond of gardening and antique furniture, a resident of Greenwich Village. She dresses in tweeds, has two dogs and five alley cats, uses a dark stain to give her hair its golden appearance in her current role. Her husband, Frank J. Ross Jr., is a building contractor. Having reversed the procedure with which most handsome young actresses start their careers, she will presently return to Hollywood to make a picture for Columbia...
...difficulties with the U. S. customs, was finally in Manhattan, cut, ready to be put in place. But at the last moment the stone cutters' union called a strike because the marble was cut in Italy, because it did not provide sufficient work for union members. Although the contractor last week admitted that he was hogtied again, he optimistically prophesied that the Pulitzer's Lady of the Plaza would not remain disreputable another winter...
...functions like the N. A. P. A. Last week 50 members at the San Francisco convention elected Willard Northrop, New York contractor and scoutmaster, next year's president...
...chapel car is not maintained by the university, but chartered from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which owns two for Catholic services. These are fitted with altar and rail at one end, with collapsible chairs seating 60 or 70. Nearly every year (but not this year) a wealthy Philadelphia contractor named Joseph Mack assembles about 75 friends, including several priests, hires one of the B. & O. chapel cars and rolls to the Kentucky Derby...
...letter from Savio had been read, the Duce sent out one of his secretaries, ONE ENTIRELY UNKNOWN TO THE GREAT MASS OF THE PUBLIC, who came back with the following report to the Duce: 'To Signor Pietro Savio. 72 years of age, born in Turin, ex-contractor, unable to work because of advanced age, now living at 25 Via Calabria, there has been communicated that the bread at 1.30 per kilo was bought by the Duce from the bakery of Antonio Menichini, at No. 78 Via Alessandria...