Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard students work too hard thinks George Cristos, merchant prince, who owns and manages the fruit stand opposite the New Lecture Hall...
...Shipping Board Bureau of the Department 'of Commerce let "all owners of ships under mortgage to the Government" know that "the carrying of essential war materials ... is distinctly contrary to the policy of the Government." Off the record, New Dealers said that almost every U. S. merchant ship today has a Government mortgage string tied to it in one way or another, added that the President is prepared to jerk the strings...
Died. John A. Pilgard, 69, merchant and Democratic Mayor-elect of Hartford, Conn., after six weeks' illness of abscessed teeth and a gall bladder ailment; in Hartford. Hospitalized early in October, he was elected by an unprecedented plurality, would have been inaugurated...
...Widener there are 600 volumes of newspapers printed in America before 1810. Half of these were collected by Professor Christoph Daniel Ebeling, of Hamburg, Germany. On his death in 1817 the collection was bought by Israel Thorndike, a Boston merchant, and presented to Harvard the next year...
...thoroughly happy man last week was Board Chairman James Milliken Speers, 73, of James McCutcheon & Co., Manhattan drygoods store. Besides serving McCutcheon's for 55 years, Merchant Speers, a good Presbyterian, has been active in many a pious cause. He is glowingly proud of his six sons. Two are in the service of his prosperous store and the rest in the service of God. Son Thomas Guthrie Speers is pastor of Baltimore's Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church. Son Peter teaches in Forman Christian College, Lahore, India; Son James Jr. at Shanghai American School. Last week Son Theodore Cuyler...