Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favor neutrality in Asia and Spain, but deplore the suppression of Christianity there. We approve the President's policy of maintaining a large navy, and we favor a large merchant marine...
Only these students making Group 1 for the first time receive the awards, which were established through a fund left by Edward Hopkins, a London merchant who came to Massachusetts Colony in 1637 and became a leader in colonial affairs...
...triumph in itself, since in four and a half years of existence it had been generally ridiculed or ignored by the Administration. Yet its hand-picked membership includes many a New Deal friend, including Glassman John D. Biggers, Camelman S. Clay Williams, Investment Banker Sidney J. Weinberg, Merchant Lincoln Filene, Mail Order Man Robert E. Wood. Only member absent last week was Shipman Kermit Roosevelt, son of the President's fifth cousin...
...Victoria Regina troupe have played their episodic drama with thumping success through a two-season Manhattan run. a meandering road tour. Last week in Chicago, Actress Hayes & company joined with a few Tovarich troupers for a busman's holiday. Their respite: a one-matinee performance of The Merchant of Venice, with Actress Hayes a pint-sized Portia, Abraham Sofaer her Disraeli, as Shylock. Explanation: 1) Actress Hayes had always wanted to play Shakespeare; 2) the company had been playing Victoria so long they were fit to be tied. So good a time was had by all that four more...
Long known to Europe, the large size pneumatic carrier and tube system was investigated by the great U. S. merchant John Wanamaker, then Postmaster General, on a junket abroad in 1889. He inspired the group who acquired patents and franchises, founded American Pneumatic Service Co., started tube systems in five cities. The biggest one, in Manhattan, carried its first article in 1897-a Bible wrapped in the Stars & Stripes...