Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shuttered, musty, little shop stood on the edge of the canal, next to the sumptuous guild of the moneylenders. On its lintel was the cryptic legend, "speak of nothing but business, and speak quickly. To the merchant-princes of the guild, who saw it in passing, it might have seemed like the humble bootleg of a cobbler. Not the most fortunate of them would know that within it countries of the mind were being discovered, vaster than the lands toward which another Italian was sailing in the same year. Entering, he would have found the flower of Venetian scholarship gathered...
...unfilled. Complaining that the board did not "function cohesively'' in administrative matters, the President purposed, with the legislative consent of Congress, to transfer its activities to the Department of Commerce over which he exercises supreme power. The shift, he contended, would save money, promote efficiency, help the Merchant Marine...
...gets blood poisoning. Rather than send him to the free U. S. hospital, which the Negroes dread, Cherie gives up all her savings to have him treated privately. Josiah dies, and her hopes of seeing France wither. But there is still one hope in Tsamatsui. a Japanese merchant, whose last agent for Canal espionage has been shot. He offers her $200 for a few observations. Cherie makes them. Unfortunately a German agent, Staub, to whom she once gave her love for a few postcards of France and a gilded Eiffel Tower of lead, and who has since gone...
...first of three spring talks being sponsored by the Liberal Club on the general subject: "What the Depression Reveals about Long-Range changes in Government Policy and the Organization and Control of Business." The other two speeches will probably be presented from the points of view of a retail merchant and an engineer...
...consulates of the Japanese Empire. Deposits with one of its subsidiaries, Mitsui Bank, exceed the annual tax revenues of all the cities of Japan. Another subsidiary, Mitsui Trading Co., handles one-fourth of all Japan's foreign trade. Under its house flag in normal times sails a chartered merchant fleet as large as the whole mercantile marine of France...