Word: levying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Sears store .in the shopping heart of a major city, the new store was Sears's 381st retail market place. Cost of the experiment was not large. For its ancient (1891) Leiter Building the Levi Leiter Estate will get 1½% of Sears's net sales for five years, with a minimum guarantee of $75,000 above taxes after three years. The 20-year lease may be revised after five. Remodeling cost $990,000. Sears hopes soon to be doing a $15,000,000 per year business in store No. 381. Other Loop stores sell from...
...intestinal fortitude, I am not lacking in my knowledge of Cass County. TIME'S statement is correct. There are hillbillies in Cass County. Lovable ones, however, and politicians. Rabbits have been cornered in hollow logs in Patman's district. And snuff (between lower lip and teeth, perhaps Levi Garett's, perhaps someones else) is not uncommon. Some of we wage earning Texans view Ambassador Mellon's "Big Business War Et al," not with alarm but with interest. Politically ambitious Texans tread lightly on the subject until after the vote is counted. For, Mr. Mellon...
After your statement about the people of Cass County being hillbillies who corner their rabbits in hollow logs and take Levi Garett snuff (between their lower lip and teeth) with their politics, I would like to suggest that if you have the guts to do so that you come down to Cass County and make some of those statements to some of Hon. Wright Patman's neighbors or any of his many friends all over Texas. If you did it would be a good idea to let your cow and calf together for you wouldn't get back...
Rabbi Harry Levi of the Temple Israel synagogue in Boston has been selected as the first Jewish authority to lecture to Harvard theological students since the Theological School was founded nearly three centuries ago. The Reverend W. L. Sperry, dean of the Theological School, yesterday requested Rabbi Levi to talk to the students during one week in June, preferably on the subject of Judaism...
...Rabbi Levi has lead the Adath Israel congregation, one of the largest and most influential in Boston, for 20 years. He came to Boston from Wheeling, West Virginia, where he had served as leader of the Jewish community after being ordained as a rabbi directly on graduating from the Hebrew Union College. Besides his researches in Jewish theology he is recognized as an authority on Hebraic history and literature. In 1899 he published an authoritative volume on "Jewish Characters in Fiction...