Word: labelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cards ... the defendant is engaged in mercantile business. . . . Does a shopkeeper . . . owe no duty to a customer to sell honest goods because, forsooth-Trinity argues-'a stranger, a licensee, of his own free will' comes into the open store ... to buy a can of baked beans labeled . . . Genuine Boston Baked Beans, pays 10? for it, takes it home, and, on opening, finds it to be spoiled stewed prunes-has he no right to recover the price paid under a false label...
...follows every public official, are at once indicted as 'crooks' and to accept such a sweeping indictment is to permit the creator of Little Orphan Annie and . . . the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, to attack and condemn all persons, all institutions, and all ideas save those they choose to label acceptable...
...that last sentence Chairman Doughton expressed the feeling of a large conservative wing of Democratic Congress-men-those who do not care to be tagged with the label of "soaking the rich." To 'avoid that label many a Congressman would like to see the President's tax proposals broadened to include others than multimillionaires. Progressive Senator La Follette favors reducing personal income tax exemptions. Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan asserted...
...parents' wishes. She made a Broadway name in the Music Box Revue. Aspiring to Metropolitan Opera, she had a potent friend in the late Otto Kahn. Most critics were indifferent when they heard her there. But she stayed three years, studied hard, paid the claque well. The Metropolitan label proved a sure entrée to radio and cinema. When Grace Moore appeared in New Moon with Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, she swore that her name would be posted...
...Anna Schlorer helped her mother mix, bottle and label mayonnaise in the family kitchen, peddled it from door to door until midnight or later. After six years her mother formed a company and soon the mayonnaise, pickles, relishes, potato salad and other delicacies of Mrs. Schlorer's, Inc. were famed throughout Philadelphia & vicinity...