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...heroes of those awful hours in the plane were nine U.S. merchant seamen, homeward bound after delivering a tanker to an English buyer. They nonchalantly ate sardines and crackers, reassured the passengers and tied bibs made of torn sheets around the necks of retching men & women...
...Eyewitness. On this point, the witness Niranjan Singh, a Sikh, testified. Singh, a few weeks ago a prosperous merchant in the Montgomery district of the Punjab, now moves about New Delhi on crutches. He said...
...when enough First Family candidates, presumably, had become rich, the little inbred society called a halt: "All of a sudden, as it were, the Golden Gates to Boston's First Familyland clanged shut, and, generally speaking, they have remained shut ever since. Even the word 'merchant' . . . died out in the Boston language...
Piratical Past. The founders of these families were almost invariably shrewd 19th Century merchants who bought cheap and sold dear: "... a Cabot, a Derby, a Sears, an Endicott, a Peabody, a Crowninshield and many others. All represent First Family names today and yet all were men who, if not actually pirates, were at least vikings in their methods." If some were above the slave trade, "they were not averse to an occasional sally into the opium trade." Merchant T. Jefferson Coolidge confided to his "Day Book" that "money was the only 'real avenue' to social success in Boston...
...that the above explanation is overdue. We are also especially pleased at the reaction of two of our visitors: one, an advertising executive, was so taken with the painting exhibits that she offered to buy six of them on the spot for her private collection; the other, a Philadelphia merchant, made minute inquiries into the workings of the fair, saying he planned to try it next year in his own department store...