Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other recommendation: place the merchant marine under a single responsible head and urge the people to ship in U. S. bottoms; develop the Philippines, economically and do not give them independence until they are better fitted; discharge War debt obligations rapidly; avoid competitive armaments; create a board to deal with radio problems; enact immediately supplementary legislation to enforce Prohibition...
Nathan Straus, 78, merchant-philanthropist: "To rouse Boston Jews into giving towards the $7,500,000 which United Palestine Appeal fund wants to collect before next June, I reminded them last week that 'the Rockefellers, both father and son, are devoting their millions to help the welfare of mankind, while a man like Henry Ford has engaged in a campaign against the Jewish people.' Then I added, 'If he submitted the facts to a committee of ten men of unimpeachable character, ministers and laymen, he would be fully convinced of the justice of my claim...
...Belgrade, last week, Mme. Gisela Tiv, wife of a wealthy Jugoslavian merchant, 33, tall, stately, handsome, mother of two children, drove up to the Grand Hotel and descended from her carriage at the door of its fashionable restaurant, unclothed...
...Frank W. Stearns. Boston merchant, longtime friend of President and Mrs. Coolidge, had his 70th birthday. The White House was the place of celebration...
...those who do not know what "old school" burlesque is. They have never been west of Allentown, Pennsylvania, on the Lehigh. Nor have they tried that excellent establishment, the Howard Athenaeum. Of course the best friend after a visit to burlesque of the "old school" is an old clothes merchant, for where there's smoke there's sure to be smell--as the old proverb says--but, in the long run as Nurnri used to say, it is worth it. For physicists can learn what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable body and doctors can leave why, when...