Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representative Wallace H. White Jr. of Maine, Chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee, called at the White House. He told the President that much sentiment had arisen in the Committee to drop all radio legislation, to allow the Federal Radio Commission to go out of existence as an administrative body in March...
...reference to "England's contemptible little army" which became the most effective British recruiting slogan of the entire War; 3) That the sinking of the Lusitania was justified by the fact that she carried arms; 4) That German submarine commanders did not in any instance aggravate their torpedoing of merchant ships by an "atrocity" or act of cruelty; and 5) That the portion of the ... Treaty of Versailles which fixes sole War guilt upon Germany is simply tosh...
...Penn Curzon, 67, fourth Earl of Howe, was Hon. Treasurer of the Allied Forces in wartime, 1914-1915; descendant of General Howe of American Revolutionary fame; onetime Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria; and Lord Chamberlain tc Queen Alexandra. Charles John Perceval. 70, ninth Earl of Egmont, had been merchant mariner, mounted policeman in Natal, border customer in Zululand...
Died. John Devlin, 82, "Diamond Man" (50 years or more of service) with Marshall Field & Co.; in Chicago. "Diamond Man" Devlin tutored famed London merchant Harry Gordon Selfridge in the rudiments of barter; once held Potter Palmer at the point of a gun, mistaking him for a burglar when he came to the store at midnight; helped Levi Zeigler Leiter carry out stock during the Chicago fire. Six other "Diamond Men" will be his pallbearers...
...last week predicted that the next few years would see "the greatest boom in the history of this country." He foresaw the greatest advance in commodity prices since 1921, a large increase in per capita consumption of leading products, and a redistribution of prosperity which would include the small merchant and manufacturer as well as the large corporation...