Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Potter Palmer was the merchant who brought the bargain sale to Chicago, the real-estate operator who shifted its shopping center from Lake Street to State Street, its residential district from the South Shore to the North; the hotel man who built the first two Palmer Houses* and, in the second, set a style by paving its barbershop with silver dollars. His wife brought big-time Society to gawky, brash Chicago...
...deducted to fill the purchase kitty. Meanwhile, Korea's ambassador to Washington was told to start looking for a ship. Last September Korea's government plunked down $18,000 of hard-won cash to buy a sturdy little 175-ft. patrol craft, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy's training ship Ensign Whitehead. A crew of 16 Korean officers was flown to New York to bring her home. They rechristened her the Bak Dusan, studied her vagaries in a two-week orientation course at the academy, painted her white sides a dark battleship grey, and set sail...
...became the city's de facto government, set up an orphanage and a hospital for the poor, brought in food and medicines, cleaned up the filthy streets and buried the dead* -more than 5,000 of the 30,000 or so Philadelphians who had remained. Such men as Merchant Stephen Girard, French Refugee Dr. Devèze and former Negro Slaves Absalom Jones and Richard Allen worked with extraordinary heroism and leadership. As Author Powell discloses their steady gallantry, they take on the stature of American heroes...
...Window" deals with the effects of this pressure on the convictions of several people in the ten years covered by the play's action. Robin Flemming, a tradesman of York, forswears Catholicism and eventually becomes Earl of Hartford a favorite of Elizabeth. His partner, John Clitherow, a prosperous Anglican merchant, wished to leave others alone and to he left alone, but this turns out to be impossible...
Died. Jacques Stern, 67, French banker and onetime Radical-Socialist cabinet minister (Merchant Marine, Colonies) and under secretary (Navy); in a plunge from his ninth-floor Park Avenue duplex in Manhattan...