Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Similarly, a book dealer has no ready way of determining whether the man who offers him a book for sale actually belongs...
...fashioned Democrats has the New Deal called to its defense, because on few old-fashioned Democratic Policies has the New Deal placed reliance. Last week, however, the one member of the Cabinet who has never been labeled a New Dealer was ordered to the stump in defense of the Administration. Obediently Secretary of State Cordell Hull, a Democratic classicist from Tennessee, packed his bag, boarded a Pullman headed for Minneapolis to speak from the very platform where Alf Landon spoke a fortnight earlier, to answer the attack which that Republican Nominee leveled at President Roosevelt's reciprocal trade agreements...
Meantime Democrats were in uproar. They begged Republican Senator Norris, a stanch New Dealer who campaigned for Smith in 1928, for Roosevelt in 1932, to accept their nomination. When he refused, State Chairman James C. Quigley confidently filed for the nomination, announced that after winning it he would withdraw any time Senator Norris asked him to. Dazed and dejected were Democratic regulars when they counted their primary votes, discovered that a political cuckoo named Terry Carpenter had thrust himself into their nest with the combined support of Townsendites, Coughlinites, Share-Our-Wealthers and Germans grateful for a speech he once...
...pleased British populace that she is expecting a second child. ¶Queen Mary's amiable brother Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone and onetime Governor General of the Union of South Africa, added to the gaiety of the annual Lorfdon Antique Dealers' Fair by remarking publicly of his popular wife Princess Alice: "I always have the greatest difficulty in getting her away from the window of an art dealer's shop. She remains there with her nose glued to the glass rather like a child looking into a tuck shop...
...mystic landscapes, was so shy that he spent most of his life hiding behind a bushy mustache and the tallest and tightest stiff collar haberdashers could furnish. He would stay locked in his studio painting furiously for days at a time, occasionally lunched frugally with his good friend Dealer William Macbeth. Only his burning interest in the technique of painting and the encouragement of young talent pulled him sufficiently out of himself to argue rich Miss Lizzie Bliss, richer Mrs. John D. Rockefeller into becoming collectors and patrons of modern art, made him a hard working organizer of the historic...