Word: grocer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Boston Bees, orphans of the National Baseball League, were adopted at last. Their orphanage dates back to 1935, when Boston Grocer Charles Francis Adams (not to be confused with onetime Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, no kin) took over controlling interest in the Boston Braves. Grocer Adams also owned Boston's sumptuous Suffolk Downs race track. That made him, in the eyes of Baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis, a greenbacked Satan. In governing baseball's affairs, Judge Landis has always had one rigid rule: no one connected with horse racing...
...Coming home to his Bronx apartment, John Pappas, 54, well-to-do wholesale grocer, found the place in disorder. In the bedroom, on the bed, lay the half-naked body of Mrs. Pappas, her hands and feet bound, the towel with which she had been strangled wrapped tightly around her neck...
...which the defense boom has passed by, is also the one U. S. department in which New Dealers can still think in nonwar terms. There dwells Surplus Marketing Administrator Milo Perkins, the ex-Texas businessman who invented the popular Stamp Plan for distributing surpluses to reliefers without bypassing the grocer. Agriculture last week announced another Perkins scheme: the application of his Stamp Plan to cotton growers, many of whom have not been able to buy enough mattresses, clothes and other cotton products for their...
Last week Publisher Julius Ochs Adler (who is also general manager of the New York Times) announced a new afternoon paper for Chattanooga: the Evening Times, to compete with Grocer Roy McDonald's News-Free Press (also for Willkie...
...unravelled from the first scene. But the charm of the play is the deftness of his unravelling. It is a conflict of mellow experience against the force of change which comes crying to the small village in the person of the Reverend Ernest Dunwoody (Hiram Sherman) and the new grocer (William Post, Jr.), bent on taking the trade from Boyd's shop...