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These limitations to their independence irritated Germans far more than the new concessions pleased them. Socialist Party Leader Kurt Schumacher snapped: "The way the occupation statute was revised resembles unfortunately the manners of a stingy merchant." Countered Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, trying to calm down public opinion: "A further progress . . . We should acknowledge this, and not fall into the mistake of saying no to everything...
Most of the money for the new building will come from the bequest of the late Georgine Holmes Thomas. The total cost will be $750,000. The Hall will be named is honor of Mrs. Thomas' father, a leading merchant of Cincinnati and New York...
...American Tragedy." Matthiessen traces the writer's career during that time in terms of his literary output. From the sympathetic portrait of the heroine of "Jennie Gerhardt"--based in some measure on the author's mother--Dreiser moved to a lengthy and only partly successful study of the "Merchant Prince" financiers who dominated the country during his youth, and by whom he was both attracted and repelled...
...wealthiest men and freest spenders; of a heart attack; in Montevideo, Uruguay. Aided by loans and contracts from Argentina's Dictator Juan Peron, to whom he had given such thoughtful gifts as a Rolls-Royce, Dodero expanded his shipping business to 382 vessels, the continent's biggest merchant fleet. In 1949 he sold his Compania Argentina de Navegacion Dodero S.A. to Peron's government. For pleasure, Don Alberto had a small land, sea & air fleet all his own, kept hotel-like establishments on Long Island and the Riviera, habitually spent about $50,000 a week on wine...
What is the advertising value of a Royal Warrant? No British merchant has ever measured it in pounds, shillings and pence, but most would agree with the Warrant-holder who said last week: "I would rather see my firm in fine print again on that list of Warrants next January than receive a peerage in the New Year's Honors List...