Word: grocers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farm each autumn. Bland, dignified and equipped with a genuine Kentucky accent to match his genuine Kentucky colonelcy, Col. Bradley shows a wary reticence when talking to reporters. He has one superstition: all his horses have names begining with "B." Burgoo King was named for Jim Mooney, a Lexington grocer whose "burgoo"-a savory meat stew cooked for two days and sometimes seasoned with corn whiskey-is reputed Kentucky's best...
...Cambridge a grocer's assistant named John Dover Place sued Dr. Charles Frederick Searle, charging the doctor had enticed his wife Gwendoline from his home. Evidence showed Grocer's Assistant Place spent four nights a week at the Rose & Crown public house. Wig askew, Sir Henry Alfred McCardie, England's handsome, black-eyed bachelor judge, said...
Shortly after the Franco-Prussian war, in which he had shrewdly enriched himself by selling foodstuffs to the French, a formidable British wholesale grocer named John Johnston found himself surprisingly afflicted with dyspepsia. Disgusted by the remedies then in vogue, he chose to make a new one, out of beef. Bovril, in its squat, liquorish bottles, is now capitalized for ?3,000,000, has ?6,000,000 of assets including 1,300,000 acres of cattleland in the Argentine and 9,000,000 acres in Australia, where "Bovril" is the slang equivalent for applesauce or baloney. Last week, Bovril...
...Cabinet, were it not for the fact that the Bovril board has the honor of including a member of the royal family (addicted to Bovril since Edward VII) but whose name is discreetly withheld. Chairman of the Board is Lord Luke of Pavenham, K. B. E., whose grandfather was Grocer John Johnston. Fellow members are His Grace the Duke of Atholl and that celebrated Tory jurist, Viscount Hailsham, P. C., onetime Lord Chancellor and present Minister of War. If it were conceivable that such names as these needed corroboration to inspire confidence they have had the advantage of being supported...
...MacVeagh. Secretary of the Treasury under President Taft, president of Franklin MacVeagh & Co., 66-year-old Chicago wholesale grocery house. The announcement was that the Depression had been too much, the old firm would dissolve. ''My son, Eames, wanted to close the business some time ago," said Grocer MacVeagh. "But I did not resolve to do so until a week ago. . . . We have gone through several panics and one great disaster, the Chicago fire. The present depression will end, but is the most in-correctable situation I have ever experienced. Never before has one been so difficult...