Word: grocers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coca leaves, wanted to quit. One day they cracked out a few grains of tin. Later a full-fledged vein was uncovered. The Bolivian went to catch some Ilamas, loaded them with tin ore, plodded down to La Paz. Soon all Bolivia had heard that Simon Patino, onetime grocer's clerk, was growing rich...
...dishes in the family home on a Kentucky farm-two log cabins set end-to-end with space between for wash-tubs. At 51 he was in Switzerland helping to organize the Bank for International Settlements. At 18 he was teaching school for $150 a year, working as a grocer's clerk, joining a fire company to get a free bed. At 53 he was making nearly $100,000 a year and had been groomed for the Presidency. At 27 he was manager, cashier, janitor and night watchman of a bank at Malone, Tex. (pop. 150) where he slept...
...Farley appointment of last week: Henry Clay Swanson, 62, onetime grocer, brother of the Secretary of the Navy, to be postmaster of Danville. Va.. on whose Main Street he lives. The distinguished Secretary brother wangled, when a Senator, a new Danville post office, now under construction...
...flushed with excitement, confided in the pilot that she had missed the previous plane and had to be in Reno next morning "to visit her sister." (It turned out that she was to be married next day.) And there was a middle-aged man named Emil Smith, a retired grocer. Mr. Smith caused the Negro porter at the depot some concern. He seemed to have had too much to drink. His luggage included a smallbore rifle and cartridges. (It later developed that he was expected to compete in a shoot at Chicago's North Shore Gun Club...
...partnership" between the President and every employer from the corner grocer to the biggest tycoon was to be voluntary (no law existed to force it upon all industry & business) and run until Jan. 1. Approval of regular trade codes before that date would release all "partners" in the subscribing industry. Excepting household servants and farm hands, all employes were divided into two groups: 1) those who worked with their hands in factories and shops; 2) those who worked with their heads in offices and stores. Employers of Group 1 were asked not to work their help more than eight hours...