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...petition. At the conference Debtor Doctor told his creditors he would: 1) settle for 33? on the $1; 2) pay in full if given an extension; 3) be thrown into bankruptcy if neither proposal was accepted. The holder of the deficiency judgment, demanding his $1,000, favored bankruptcy. The grocer was ready for a time extension. But the landlord, the friend with the I. 0. U. and the town tradesmen, all needing cash, consented to take one-third of their debts and call it square. As majority creditors with claims of $1,800 against John Doctor they signed an agreement...
Last week Denver's leading 'legger, a little grocer named Joe Roma, sat plunking his mandolin in front of a music rack in his home. While a pot of spaghetti was bubbling in the kitchen, some unknown persons called. When they rose to go they filled Joe Roma with so many .38 and .45 slugs that the police could not count the holes...
...personal appearance to suggest even faintly a resemblance to the super-man. Short of stature, rather plump, with a short, thick neck, broad shoulders, round, red face, high intellectual forehead, nose slightly turned up, brownish moustache, and short, stubby beard, he looked more at first glance like a provincial grocer than a leader of men." Later when the Agent knew Lenin better, he was impressed by the man's will-power, his relentless determination, his lack of emotion. Lockhart found that Lenin was not to be moved by any appeal to his vanity. Trotsky seemed to be the very antithesis...
...knock, Scotti tried to smoke one of his long, monogrammed cigarets, but his mouth was too parched. He had never been so nervous, he decided, not even on that first night in Malta 43 years ago when it had seemed fantastic that he, son of a Neapolitan grocer, intended for the priesthood, should be singing in opera. Finally the knock came...
...Oshkosh, Wis., Pauper Mamie Gehrke, cashing her city food slip, shrilled at Grocer Jacobs that she would take her trade elsewhere if he did not cash her slips for cigarets instead of food. Grocer Jacobs had Pauper Gehrke arrested...