Word: jobbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost axiomatic is the belief that jobbing is doomed as an economic function. The wholesaler, runs the argument, will be inevitably squeezed to death between chain-store competition and direct-to-retailer selling by manufacturers. One jobber who has refused to accept this fate is Butler Brothers, one of the biggest U. S. wholesale houses.* Last week Butler's President Frank Simpson Cunningham told his stockholders that in 1935 their company sold $73,000,000 worth of hardware, cutlery, jewelry, furniture, notions, dresses, towels, etc., and retained $1,285,000 as net profit. That was a little better than...
...Japanese novelty makers on learning of Prince George's engagement to Princess Marina (TIME, Sept. 10) promptly began stamping out at Osaka last week "George and Marina badges" to be peddled in London at the time of the wedding, date not yet announced. Said the leading Japanese bunting jobber of Kobe, "We shipped to Australia several weeks ago a very large proportion of the flags and bunting they will use to greet the Duke of Gloucester" (see above...
...Zemurray-Cutter feud is 20 years old. Victor Cutter was opening new tropical divisions for United Fruit. Samuel Zemurray, Polish-Jewish immigrant who out of his savings as a fruit jobber in New Orleans had formed Cuyamel Fruit & Steamship Co., was trying to wrest control of the Caribbean Sea from United. They clashed in Guatemala when each backed a different country in the dispute, not yet settled, over the Guatemalan-Honduras boundary line. They clashed in Honduras when United invaded the country Mr. Zemurray had made his own through a $200,000 revolution. Mr. Cutter, smooth-haired Dartmouth graduate...
...took it away from Ferdinand Brucker, Demo cratic father of Michigan's present Repub lican Governor. Year ago the late Bird J. Vincent, thin, greyish Republican Representative, defeated a big, blond, slow-moving Democrat named Michael J. ("Mike") Hart by 20,000 votes. This year Mr. Hart, a bean jobber of Saginaw who runs an 800-acre farm, was again nominated, this time against Republican Foss O. Eldred of Ionia. Nominee Hart declared Wet, had the support of the Crusaders who rained 250,000 leaflets ("Take a moratorium from your political affiliations and vote and work only for candidates...
Dirty rat-nutty judge-hoodlum-lazy blood-sucking jobber- William Halitosis Thompson-blustering loudmouth, irresponsible mountebank-blubbering jungle hippopotamus-lurching, shambling imbecile-flabby jowls of a barnyard hog-two jackass ears, a cowboy hat and an empty space between-chambermaid in a ranch bunkhouse-skunk...