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While delegates from 31 states were dining & dancing at the 39th annual convention of the National Association of Retail Grocers in Dallas, Tex. last week, the most original grocer in the U. S. was preparing to give housewives another exciting thrill in Memphis, Tenn. Name of that grocer was Clarence Saunders, a onetime miner who likes to wrestle with financial problems all night in a bathtub of hot water. Name of his latest merchandising excitement: Keedoozle Corp. Cried Keedoozler Saunders: "Within a year I'll be worth $10,000,000. I won't have that much on hand...
...carrying it without considerable strain. It is a superannuated fable about peewees at the poor farm, a mixture of practical jokery, youthful fixations and hokum melodrama. Caustic little Miss Withers is most successful when, as the black sheep of an orphan asylum, she steals Thanksgiving turkeys from a grocer's truck, chants superbly a ballad called Then Came the Indians...
Blue-eyed, genial William Johnson is the first native Chicagoan to become superintendent since the post was created in 1854. Son of a Danish grocer, he swept high-school classrooms, did odd jobs, saved enough money to go to Beloit College where, as an assistant in the chemistry laboratory, he "mixed the drinks for the boys to analyze." Switching to Northwestern, he studied education, had a rapid succession of jobs that landed him in Chicago as an elementary-school principal. When he asked for a high-school principalship last year, the Board of Education made him assistant superintendent...
Last week certain people in Milwaukee were saying, as they have said many a time in the past, that Mr. Hoan wants to destroy the U. S. Home. For Mr. Hoan is not a wholesale grocer or an insurance salesman but the longtime Socialist Mayor of the twelfth city of the land...
Ceddie (Bartholomew) is discovered in Brooklyn where his best friends are the apple woman on the corner, the bootblack and the neighborhood grocer (Guy Kibbee). When his grandfather's solicitor (Henry Stephenson) calls to announce that Ceddie is heir to the Earldom of Dorincourt, Ceddie and Dearest embark for England. When they get there the tragic separation of Ceddie and his mother, whom the crotchety Old Earl (Smith) refuses to meet, is soft-pedaled. The emphasis is placed on Ceddie's dealings with his grandfather, upon whom his influence is so healthy that the Old Earl presently stops...