Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the most important and valuable of the Quartos from the White collection are editions of "Love's Labor Lost", London, 1598; "Romeo and Juliet", 1599; "The Sonnets", 1609; "The Merchant of Venice", 1600; and "The Merry Devil of Edmonton", one of the attributed plays, published in London...
...Merchant Percy Straus of Manhattan...
...famed China Town were continuing resolutely, last week, a boycott of all Japanese wares which they began when Japan recently sent troops to occupy the Chinese province of Shantung (TIME, April 30). Potent Editor Seto Chen of the Chinatown Nationalist Daily said, last week: "I know a Chinese merchant here who has a stock of Japanese goods worth $15,000 on his shelves. He has consented to let our Chinese Citizens League decide what to do with it. If I am not mistaken there will be a big bonfire in Mott Street one of these days...
Then Joel 0. Cheek did a very bold thing for a merchant. He started a national advertising campaign before he could supply the goods he advertised. But he created an insistent demand, and by the time his salesmen got to northern, midwestern, southwestern, northwestern and Pacific Coast jobbers they met very little sales-resistance...
...interest to U. S. shipbuilders, which was approved by President Coolidge, looked to farmer-sympathizers who did not know how much money the U. S. has put at the farmer's disposal (see p. 11), like sharp discrimination between Agriculture and Industry. President Coolidge signed the Jones-White Merchant Marine bill, providing this increase, the same day he vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill also provided comforting U. S. mail contracts for U. S. shipmen. President Coolidge's main reasons for approving the ship bill were two: It was designed to put more merchantmen operating from the U. S., under...