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Samuel Cooperman, grocer, the next talesman called, said he had read about the case. "Have you formed any opinion concerning the guilt or innocence of the defendants?" "I certainly have!" said Grocer Cooperman. He was excused...
...sytruck, the company told them to move out, presumably wanting its houses for occupancy by non-union laborers. The union men would not budge. They paid their rent. They guaranteed to continue to pay their rent. The company thereupon forbade trespassing on its property and kept the milkman, the grocer, even the doctor from visiting its unwelcome tenants without its express permission. Then the company obtained from Judge F. P. Schoonmaker of the U. S. District Court an injunction for the union men's eviction, on the ground that they were hampering the company's business, part...
With these figures at his fingertips, it takes Big Dan but a few minutes to persuade Grocer Paddock, Banker Winton, Realtor Jones, Judge Burnes and Major Riley of Westover?members of five different denominations?to accept from him, blushingly, and administer, a foundation of $2,559,494.08 to build three nondenominational "temples" costing $500,000 apiece. Invested at 5%, the $1,059,494.08 surplus over building costs will yield $52,974.70 per annum, or $17,658.23 per temple, or more than five times the annual expenses of each of the 44 present Westover churches. Big Dan explains that preachers, powerless...
...full force of this ending is brought home in a final chapter, entitled "Happiness," where the groceryman's wife, Mrs. Paddock, repents of having flirted with a local literary light and the grocer's daughter, Georgia Paddock, forgives Hero Jack Ellory for having belittled, by premature tactics, "the fully matured love of a man for his mate...
...mother has had a hard time of life. She married again, one Harold McPherson, San Francisco grocer, by whom...