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...Papa," said the boy Leon Blum, "how dare you sell your ware for more money than you paid for it?" There is no record of Papa Blum's answer; of Alsatian Jewish stock, a Parisian merchant in the reign of Napoleon III, he went right on selling laces and ribbons for a tidy profit. But son Leon rebelled against what he later called the dishonesty and decay of bourgeois capitalism...
Winston Churchill went to Manchester one day in 1906 to attend to some politicking. While there, Churchill was entertained by the local Liberal Party campaign chairman, a wealthy Jewish cotton merchant named Nathan Laski. No one seems to remember whether he met Laski's 13-year-old son, a bright-eyed, dark-haired lad named Harold Joseph...
...partial cure for the wheat surplus, Kansas Merchant and Wheat Farmer Morris Coover last week offered a new recipe for bread, using 16% more wheat flour in every loaf and retailing for 10 more. Coover, backed by the Western Kansas Development Association, last week flew 500 loaves of his heavier, darker and more nutritious bread to Washington for sampling in the Senate & House restaurants...
...Yvette's mother in Brooklyn. "She was always high-strung when she was a girl," wrote Mrs. Noack. "She had a lot of crying spells. She had tantrums. She acted like a nut." At 15, the girl had run away from home, had lived with a middle-aged merchant on Manhattan's Park Avenue...
...Alison Leggatt are perfectly cast as the major and his wife. They act with simplicity and poignant reserve. Rosalie Crutchley lends vitality to the generally quiet production as the distraught war-wife; in addition, she is very beautiful. And Peter Illing plays excellently the role of the oily Syrian merchant who serves both as the protagonist of the plot and as a moral foil to the major...