Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia College had 227 students and several buildings at Madison Avenue and 49th Street. Aged 16, N. M. Butler, son of a New Jersey merchant, matriculated in 1878 to find only four of his classmates younger than himself. Slight, slick-haired young Butler busied himself winning prizes ("bun-yanking"), assimilating learning in enormous doses. He edited a college paper, Acta Columbiana, drafted the freshman class constitution. Politically-minded, oratorical, he was interested in everything but athletics. He was fit, though, set himself a private record by walking 45 mi. in 12 hr. on an Adirondack trip...
...banker or merchant had lent $20,000 to Lenox, Mass, (pop.: 2,895) in its hour of need last week, few persons far from that fashionable little summer resort would have heard about it. But because the lender was a plain newspaper reporter, member of a traditionally underpaid and improvident profession, he became news everywhere. He was Walter Everett Lewis, 64, for 25 years Lenox correspondent of the Pittsfield (Mass.) Berkshire Eagle...
...committees of the Round Table Conference prepared to resume sessions 24 native commercial organizations voted to suspend business for a week as a protest against the exclusion of St. Gandhi. The Bombay government retaliated by ordering the arrest of any merchant closing his place of business. At Ahmedabad an Indian surgeon was fined 1,000 rupees for refusing for the third time to remove the Gandhi tricolor from his dispensary. Unimpressed by the much publicized martyrdom of Krishna Kant (TIME, Jan. 25). a British magistrate ordered a 14-year-old boy flogged for picketing a British bank...
...force the Chinese Mayor, General Wu Teh-chen and other officials to call off the boycott Japan had two other weapons. Though few U. S. citizens realize it, China has a merchant marine. Japan threatened last week to close the port of Shanghai to all Chinese vessels. One of the city's greatest tycoons is grizzled, wily old Yu Ya-ching, ex-President of the Chamber of Commerce, Municipal Councilor, Managing Director of the Sanpeh Steam Navigation Co., second largest Chinese steamship company, and generally known as "The Big Boss of Shanghai." He is rumored...
...large snapping turtle named Orpheus made itself at home last week in Chicago's expensive Blackstone Hotel. It was the honored guest of Mrs. Ben Rubenstein, wife of a British timber merchant. As Conchita Supervia, Mrs. Rubenstein was in Chicago to sing Carmen with the Civic Opera Company. The turtle was her talisman.* Never before had she found one sturdy enough to weather touring. She had always depended on a little silver turtle, the insignia of the Orden de la Tortuga of which ex-King Alfonso of Spain and the late Dictator Primo de Rivera were charter members. The grandfather...