Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contract was made with a Forrest City salvage dealer that he would speedily remove the metal from the scene of the accident and that he would dispose of it for junk, not souvenirs. . . . The small amount realized from the lump of melted metal was given as a donation to the American Red Cross...
Every Labor convention must have at least one good, healthy snarl at Capitalism. "Do you . . . stand with the President of the United States?" asked Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady. Up went a mighty affirmative roar. "Let that," declared New Dealer McGrady, "be the answer to the money bags of Wall Street...
...more than any other, was responsible for the vogue for early American antiques set up in business as a dealer not in his own personal hobby but in rare Chinese porcelains. Near his home on 35th Street he rented another house, filled it with expensive bric-a-brac which he promptly began to sell to the elder Morgan, Joseph Widener, Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden and other Orientalists. No passer-by would ever know that it was an art shop because Tom Clarke never had a show window, never published an advertisement, never hung out a name plate. His business...
Albert D. ("Dolly") Stark was born on Manhattan's lower East Side, son of a second-hand clothes dealer who never had enough spare stock to supply his son with a coat to match his trousers. Small Stark envied the boy who lived across the street, whose name was Walter Winchell, and who owned a Buster Brown suit of blue serge. When he grew up Dolly Stark became a professional baseball player. He gave it up in 1921, went to Dartmouth as basketball coach three years later, kept up his interest in baseball by umpiring summers...
...Torvald Hoyer's passion for painting that first made him an acrobat. Son of a well-known Copenhagen coal-dealer, he started posing for the Danish court painter Frants Henningsen at the age of 13, later studied in his studio. When Torvald was 19 and a great hulking youth famed as a school gymnast, his teacher suggested that he ought to travel, to see the great art galleries of Europe. Hoyer promptly picked up another muscular schoolmate named Max and formed a tumbling team. Vaudeville engagements came quickly. Soon they teamed up with four other tumblers, became the Montrose...