Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passage of the Housing Bill (see p. 10) the day before had not done much to help. One fair indication of the Senate's state of mind was that, in a rush of minor bills on which there was no debate, it had approved one, to give merchant seamen whose certificates are suspended the right to appeal to the Secretary of Commerce, which had already been enacted. An even better indication was that, after the non-controversial bills were passed, only about 20 members were on the floor when Nevada's Patrick A. McCarran stood up to introduce...
...announced that they would charge one additional yen (20?) to each patron every time he complained of the heat, the money going to the Army fund. Girls from one popular tea house had collected over $100 by week's end. Heat, patriotism and disability caused Shimezo Maho, Tokyo merchant, to jump into the cold Pacific off the island Oshinta, leaving his $3,000 life insurance policy also to the Army fund...
...Massachusetts' green and social Berkshire hills, a pioneer landowner in 1849 was William Aspinwall Tappan, Boston merchant and banker. He purchased 210 acres between Lenox and Stockbridge, called it "Tanglewood," built a Victorian mansion on it. He also built a small red cottage which he rented to Author Nathaniel Hawthorne. There Hawthorne wrote his Tanglewood Tales for children and began his The House of the Seven Gables. Nothing very important had since happened at sedate Tanglewood until last week. From the nearby Berkshire Hunt and Country Club, where he and his wife had been put up in the best...
Stephen Girard, Philadelphia's late great 19th-Century shipping merchant, financier and philanthropist, bequeathed so much valuable property to the city he loved that a special board was created to administer it. Set up in 1869, Board of City Trusts went about its business so quietly most Philadelphians hardly knew it existed until rambunctious Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson, who likes to poke his nose into odd places, started talking about it when he took office early last year. By last week the affairs of the ancient & honorable board were making a resounding racket in Philadelphia's narrow streets...
...hostesses, having shown so much desirable experience that they were allowed to skip training school, were already at work last week on New Haven dining cars-four on the Merchant's Limited, one on the Bay Stater, one on the 4 p. m. (E.D.S.T.) express from Boston to Pittsburgh. They are paid $30 weekly plus meals while on duty, work six days a week, live in women's hotels specified by Superintendent Quinlan at each end of the line...