Word: merchant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether it's the cold or the holiday atmosphere, liquor sales are up. One merchant, however, thought Harvardians themselves were "comparatively temperate this season," for most sales consisted of Scotch and brandy packaged up for "dad." But another observed that plenty of erstwhile ale-customers had been in for whisky in the past week...
...joint meeting resolved to demand the aid of New England representatives on the strategic Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce and the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committees. Letters to these men, Senators White, Brewster. Tobey, and McMahon and Representative Seeley-Brown, will be sent...
Maurice Goldblatt went down to the Midway to see what new facilities were needed. At first, he and the scientists found each other mutually forbidding. The fast-talking little (5 ft. 4 in.) merchant used business lingo and bad grammar. (Once, when a woman innocently asked Goldblatt if he spoke French, he replied: "Lady, I don't even speak English.") What the scientists said seemed like Greek to Goldblatt, until he told them to "write it down and draw pictures." Eventually he learned that they wanted a new research hospital (cost: $1,600,000), a cyclotron...
Founded as Davidson Academy, the school had Andrew Jackson as one of its earliest trustees; Peabody Library still preserves a biography on whose flyleaf Old Hickory scrawled a withering estimate of his biographer. But it was a damyankee merchant named George Peabody and his $2,000,000 that put Peabody on its feet. Despite this taint, most of Peabody's 1,850 students still come from the South, and President Henry Harrington Hill expects his 125-man faculty and 60,000 alumni to concentrate on Southern schools...
Circle No. 2. The second circle of Miss West's inferno is that of the grotesques-those who were more developed but scarcely older than the children. Some were, like Kenneth Edward, merchant seamen. Some were British prisoners of war who went over to the Germans. Some had been members of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Almost all became members of the British Free Corps...