Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First volume of The Colonial Period began with a sweeping summary of the whole epoch of exploration that opened with the expeditions of Prince Henry of Portugal from 1394 to 1460, together with an excellent account of the joint-stock companies, the Merchant Adventurers of New England, who paved the way for England's colonial expansion. Professor Andrews usually finds in the English adventurer companies sober self-interest pulling the wires, with small ports out to smash London monopolies, and England in turn encouraging colonization to smash Spain. The trading companies themselves were usually split with factional fights among...
Athens three years ago, Mme Helen Coyimzoglu, 35, threatened in Chicago to sue unless he made immediate settlement. Styled by her lawyer as the "wife of the world's largest date merchant," she said: "I just helped Mr. Insull while he was old, sick, hunted and deserted." Said Mr. Insull: "Mme Coyimzoglu is, as I have always said, a very fine woman." Romping backstage in Memphis, cubbish Bob Crump, son of the city's Democratic Boss Edward Hull ("Ed") Crump, squirted soda-pop over Helen Morgan's white organdie Scandals costume. Irked, Torchsinger Morgan retaliated with...
...Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper.* Last week the sub-committee submitted a report to Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Monroe Johnson, suggesting: along with many a lesser recommendation, 1) that the U. S. build one large airship for Naval use, two for transatlantic passenger service; 2) that the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 be made applicable to airships; 3) that the Los Angeles be restored to flying status as a Navy training ship; 4) that a medium-sized dirigible be built or bought for the Navy as a training ship to replace the Los Angeles. The Merchant Marine...
...Merchant Johnson, who has helped Samuel Fleisher with a modest project to collect baskets of flowers from sleek Radnor estates to distribute in the Philadelphia slums, became interested in the Cultural Olympics and promised to write a blank check to launch them if Mr. Fleisher would get a solid organization behind him. In Philadelphia no organization is more solid than the University of Pennsylvania and the pair called on President Gates. Not averse to making news or friends during his money drive for the University's 1940 Bicentennial, President Gates last week agreed...
Died. Barclay Harding ("Buzz") Warburton Jr., 58, socialite farmer and aviator, grandson of Philadelphia's late merchant John Wanamaker, onetime husband of the present Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt; of an abdominal wound received when his shotgun accidentally fired while he was climbing a fence after a pheasant on his 94-acre Saracen Farm; near Doylestown, Pa. At a party last June in Stamford, Conn, he was burned about both eyes when he set off a skyrocket to announce his arrival...