Word: grocers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ervine wrote his play three years ago and has been waiting ever since to find the moment for Whitford Kane to take the lead. The wait has been worth while. As Donaghreagh's leading grocer, philosopher, and friend, Mr. Kane is little short of ideal. Then there is Hiram Sherman, portly and bouncing, who raises his pleasant voice all through the evening as the town's new minister. It would almost seem that Ervine wrote the part for him also. The rest of the cast, Helen Trenholme as Agnes Boyd, William Post, Jr. as John Haslett, Eda Heinemann and Grace...
...Soup, soap and salvation" was the motto of the Army's fiery-eyed founder, General William Booth. The Salvationists whom thriving young Grocer Damon heard in Lowell, Mass, in the '80s were so poor they could offer only the last. Damon thought that enough and joined. "We got stoned sometimes," he recalls of his early years as trombone in an Army band. At Quincy, Mass, the whole band was once arrested for disturbing the peace. The others were sentenced to 30 days in jail but 16-year-old Damon was overlooked because he was so small...
When, last December, rotund, boyish Publisher George Fort Milton, 45, had to sell his once prosperous Chattanooga News to Grocer Roy McDonald, publisher of the Chattanooga Free Press, he made himself a martyr to New Dealers. Because Milton had fought Tennessee Electric Power Co. with all his might, and T. E. P. (subsidiary of Wendell Willkie's Commonwealth & Southern) had fought back, leftist journals like The Nation and The New Republic printed tearful articles implying that T. E. P. was largely responsible for driving Milton's News to the wall...
...children of a Dayton, Ohio grocer, Irna was teaching dramatics and public speaking at Dayton Junior Teachers College, where she had worked after her graduation in 1923 from the University of Illinois, when she had a bust-up with her boy friend. It occurred at a Sunday night supper; by the following morning Irna was hotfooting it for Chicago. She got her first job in Chicago as an actress with station WGN. Within a few months she was busy writing and acting in her first and almost interminable masterwork, Painted Dreams. Irna continued to turn out Painted Dreams until...
...Intrepid Spirit." For the News plant and equipment, its Associated Press franchise and other assets, Grocer McDonald paid $150,000, assumed the burden of its $325,000 bonded debt. Last week George Fort Milton started again from scratch. He had 675 backers, most of them in Chattanooga, a bare $25,000 capital...