Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet: President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs-Andre Tardieu. Vice President of the Council, Minister of Justice and Controller of Administration-Paul Reynaud. Interior-Albert Mahieu. Finance-Pierre Etienne Flandin. National Defense-François Pietri. Public Instruction-Mario Roustan. Public Works, Communications and Merchant Marine-Charles Guernier. Commerce and Posts-Louis Rollin. Labor-Pierre Laval. Public Health-Camille Blaisot. Agriculture-Dr. Claude Chauveau. Colonies-Louis de Chappedelaine. Pensions and Liberated Regions-Auguste Champetier de Ribes...
...coffee merchant husband dead and three children on her hands, she bought 100 Ib. of coffee from friends on credit, roasted it, sold it to other friends at 75% profit. In seven years she had put the children through school. To the coffee business she had added tea and cocoa...
...city, the District Attorney, the State's political leader and the well-meaning Governor himself. Through his influence over these public agents and agencies Louis Corotto gets a boy out of jail, arranges a diabolical plot to make it appear that the boy has killed a minor vice merchant, and pushes the whole scheme within ten minutes of an electrocution. Mr. Corotto took all this trouble because he found out that his sulky mistress (Marguerite Churchill) was the boy's best girl. It is the mistress who finally punctures the plot and Mr. Corotto, too, with a nickel...
About 50 years ago one Abraham Schlesinger, importing & exporting merchant, started a private banking firm on Manhattan's lower East Side. The firm was called A. Schlesinger & Son. Son was named Samuel. Unnamed in the firm was Son Isidore, then in short pants. When Isidore grew into long pants and had a few dollars in their pockets he bought a steerage ticket for England and slipped away to look for cannibals. Eventually he reached Johannesburg, spent several years grubbing for his board & bed. Finally he hit upon the bright idea of selling land on the installment plan, formed African...
...Received from its Merchant Marine Committee a bill prohibiting foreign ships to cruise from U. S. ports "to nowhere," following testimony by U. S. Shipping Board officials that liquor was the chief attractions on such cruises...