Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman O'Connor of the Shipping Board proposed to President Hoover a year's moratorium on the $111,000,000 worth of Government loans to the U. S. Merchant Marine...
Left. By Nathan Straus, Jewish philanthropist and merchant of Manhattan; an estate appraised at $1,302,658, the bulk of it in securities. He had explained in his will: "I have always been deeply impressed by an old Jewish proverb which says: 'What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold, what you give in sickness is silver, and what you give after death is lead.' (Many of the rich do not even give lead...
...middle of his middle-aged decay Miltiades looks about Florence for some foothold to begin his climb. A drunken confession on the part of T. Handback, the town's wealthy merchant, gives him his chance. Years ago Handback had cheated Miltiades of his small fortune in cotton ; now, when the Colonel learns that the highly respectable Handback keeps a quadroon mistress, Gracie Vaiden, one of the old Vaiden slaves, he uses the information to pry himself, as a clerk at $7.50 a week, into Handback's store. Straight way he makes friends with the Negroes and poor whites, by selling...
After intolerable sufferings at home the Dexters, with other Pilgrims, get away to Holland. There they stay for some ten years before they can collect sufficient money, organization and courage to cross the sea. At last, bonded to the speculative Merchant Adventurers, they are furnished transportation. With their embarkation on the Mayflower the story enters more familiar ground. But the actualities of the trip, the landing at Plymouth, the first buildings, the first plantings, the first Indians and their strange ways, all are materialized by Authoress Carlisle in fascinating detail. Meanwhile the struggle between John Dexter and Eleazar takes...
...Walter Scott (her father), Manhattan merchant and philanthropist L.H.D...