Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business. Instead, after getting his $BK at Yale, he worked as a cowboy in Wyoming, later in an automobile assembly plant, became a Socialist, lectured on labor problems at Pomona College until dismissed. He took the headmastership of a school endowed by his father, entered Congress as a New Dealer in 1936. On the Dies Committee, whose conduct he has called "reprehensible," Jerry Voorhis can be counted upon to temper Rightist blasts for Leftist lambs...
...Montmartre in the famous "bateau lavoir" (floating laundry) at 13 Rue Ravignan (now Place Emile Goudeau), a fantastic barrack tenanted by painters, sculptors, writers, cartoonists, laundresses and pushcart peddlers. Picasso was Spanishly jealous of his 18-year-old mistress-though he was grateful enough that the ogling coal dealer neglected to leave a bill. To keep her at home he did the marketing himself, dressed in the cap, espadrilles and blue jeans of a workman, plus a famous white-polka-dotted red shirt that cost him less than two francs. The mystic poet, Max Jacob, helped Picasso, who steadfastly refused...
Nonetheless, some thought they saw signs of overproduction in the nation's No. 1 industry when General Motors Corp. announced that it had sold 83,000 more cars to its dealers in the final quarter of 1938 than they had sold to customers. This was almost the same surplus as marked the final quarter of 1937. But there is a difference: Year ago dealer inventories were at a peak of 425,000 new, 800,000 used cars; last week, according to Detroit estimates, they were relatively normal-300,000 new cars, 450,000 used...
Divorced. Charles A. Levine, 41, fabulous Brooklyn junk dealer who accompanied Clarence Chamberlin on his 1937 European flight as the first transatlantic airplane passenger; by his second wife, Delia Doris Levine; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty. For more than a year Levine has been in Northeastern Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., serving a two-year sentence for smuggling tungsten into...
Drifter. The family wealth died with him. William Faulkner's grandfather moved the family to Oxford, where William, the eldest of four sons, grew up in indolence, his romantic contributions to the local literary magazine, The Double Dealer, for the amount of liquor he drank...