Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago a Manhattan gem dealer named Harry Winston bought the Jonkers diamond for $730,000, had it insured for $1,000,000 by St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. He was told that the best way to ship it from London to the U. S. was by registered first class mail. Because it was uncut, Dealer Winston had not a cent of duty to pay when it arrived last week. Total cost to Dealer Winston for getting his huge gewgaw across the Atlantic...
...appeal to the nation over the heads of the Supreme Court, President Roosevelt had shrewdly avoided all technical particulars about amending or rewriting the Constitution. While the country stewed over his provocative generalities, the No. 1 New Dealer who now wants to deal again, drove to the Washington Navy Yard, waved a cheery good-by to friends ashore, sailed down the Potomac for a weekend's rest on the Sequoia...
...Angeles fruit dealer, Driver Petillo. who used to get tickets for speeding in his father's truck, had invested his last $500 in a cream-colored Gilmore Speedway Special which he patched up for the race. In his first trial he broke the speed record but was disqualified for using too much gasoline. In his second, a broken connecting rod scattered his motor on the track. Before the race, which his wife and nine-year-old son watched him win, he used an electric vibrator to keep his forearm muscles supple. His prizes, when it was over...
...horde of plain Eastside housewives, chanting "down with high meat prices!" invaded the distributing plants of Wilson & Co. and United Dressed Beef Co. In The Bronx 2,000 women volunteering as pickets succeeded in closing down more than 1,000 meat shops. In Brooklyn a poultry dealer named William Sheeger carried a chicken home for supper. Pickets, mistaking him for a customer who would not join the boycott, hurled a rock through his window, pummeled him. Confined at first to kosher shops, the strike spread to some nonkosher operators. Strike leaders claimed that more than 4,000 shops had been...
...chief peculiarity in the Cabinet is that he is no New Dealer at heart. All his life he had practiced the virtues which Calvin Coolidge admired. He and his wife, who belongs to a frugal Swiss family acclimated for some generations in Texas, lived modestly, saved out of their income even when it was only $5,000 a year. She worked, and still, from habit, works as his secretary at the Capitol. They "put by," and their fortune grew. Now they have their 350 acres in Uvalde, including a pecan plantation. In their safe deposit box are said...