Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Florence Ellinwood Allen, onetime Cleveland Plain Dealer musicritic, sits as judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati. Mrs. Frances Perkins Wilson is Secretary of Labor. The 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution gave women the right to vote in 1920. Still forbidden women in 26 States, however, is another prime privilege of a citizen-the right to serve as jurors...
...Mannes Concerts have become a New York institution, attracted as many as 17,000 people to a single performance. Conductor Mannes has never ceased to boast that he "landed in the most beautiful building in the world." The son of a Polish furniture dealer, he was born 70 years ago in New York City. He was too poor to go to school more than four years, or to afford regular music lessons. From 13 onward, he fiddled at parties, skating rinks, theatres, a waxworks museum, learned English when he played for nothing at the old Union Square Theatre...
Second only in importance to London's British Museum is London's Tate Gallery, an institution which, since its founding 40 years ago and particularly since it has been taken under the munificent wing of Art Dealer Lord Duveen of Millbank, has become one of the great art collections of the world...
...placed English backers of the treatment call J. J. Duke. The man supposedly died in Germany many years ago. Once he lived in Winnipeg where, says David Fingard, he developed the machine and drugs, and confided them to David, smart young New Jersey-born son of a Winnipeg coal dealer. The young man neglected to exploit the treatment for several years. First he tried his hand at insurance and stock brokering, grew baldish and portly during his efforts, dropped them to promote the Duke-Fingard Treatment in California, China and England, where he heard the plea of Health Minister...
Heroine Rachel was a foundling with flame-colored hair, her origin dim. All she knew was that she had been rescued as a little girl by old Baruch. a sniveling Jewish antique-dealer, and brought to the Rumanian town where he set up his curiosity shop. Hidden away in a house behind the shop, her existence unsuspected by the townsfolk, Rachel grew to womanhood...