Word: groceryman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they monkeying with the A & P?" asked the Wayne Public Market of Wayne, Mich. "A & P is one of the leaders in holding food costs down . . . We regard this threat ... as a threat to us." Groceryman Paul Simpson, who learned his trade behind an A & P counter before he opened his two Atlanta supermarkets, said: "I welcome A & P competition because ... A & P taught me to serve the public better." Wrote an independent New Orleans supermarket operator: "Destroying the A & P would mean eliminating competition...
...paper where tradition counts-but its tradition has not always been archconservative, nor have frontpage manifestos always been rare in it. In the great Charles A. Dana's day it frequently supported Democrats, and in Groceryman Frank Munsey's time (1916-25), violent eruptions which staffers called "Munsey proclamations" appeared with regularity on the face of the Sun. Great ghosts still haunt its dim corridors. Courtly Keats Speed, a great-nephew of Poet John Keats, still puts out his cigaret when he enters the newsroom, in habitual deference to a rule of the Munsey era, long since repealed...
...Groceryman John Hartford was not the only one who lost money in Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt's 1939 radio ventures (TIME, June 25). Last week, as the Treasury Department, the Bureau of Internal Revenue and two Congressional committees tried to unwind the General's lighthearted deals, two other men-with-money-to-invest admitted that they also had lent Elliott money, most of which they never saw again...
...loans, Mr. Baird said bravely, were "private and personal investments entered into for profit because [they] carried for the lenders an option to purchase stock in the network. . . . The gains could have been substantial." Baird and Bilofsky were luckier than Groceryman Hartford, who lent Elliott $200,000, got back...
...deal which largely ends economic competition between Chattanooga's two remaining papers and puts them in a position to make wartime operating economies, Groceryman McDonald became president of a new company which will pool circulation, advertising and mechanical staffs of the News-Free Press (evening) and the Chattanooga Times (morning). A bigger compliment to Groceryman McDonald was the agreement by the Chattanooga Times (the late great Adolph Ochs's steppingstone to the New York Times and still controlled by the Ochs family) to discontinue its evening edition. Started two years ago to give the fast-growing News-Free...