Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...piggery, a watermelon patch. He ran a small store where the currency was pins. Stores of various kinds have occupied him ever since; he has been store clerk or storekeeper in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah. On $50 a month, he married Berta A. Hess of Denver. She died in 1910, left two sons.* By this time the Penney dry goods chain had been started. It now includes more than 1,000 links. Several years ago Mr. Penney felt his education was sparse. He closed his office every afternoon for 18 months, studied with a tutor. He attributes his business success, however...
...Penney home is on Belle Isle, across a causeway from Miami Beach. At Miami, the Hoover party was welcomed by Governor Carlton amid a Florida fanfaronade. Host Penney was not at Belle Isle to greet Guest Hoover; he left, last week, on a round-the-world trip. But he had given Mr. Hoover the keys...
After a preliminary, characteristic sweep of the left hand over his thin black hair, Tycoon Young hitched his chair a trifle and said...
...state debt at once, leaving the new private debt to be paid off in the course of years. Thus a lofty obligation would be "commercialized" into a vulgar loan. The advantage to the Governments concerned would be that, if Germany should default, mere private citizens would be left holding...
...handled tactfully, and when she realized that she was unable to see the great doctor she disclosed that she had brought up a jar containing a mixture of linseed, aromatic herbs and toad's blood which she had religiously stirred through the night in accordance with instructions left by her great-great-grandmother, who was said to be a wonderful herbalist and who was even credited, in her day, with performing miracles. On receiving an assurance that the lotion would be applied to the King's chest, she left contentedly...