Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kramer, Mrs. Kramer's brother-in-law, is the cashier and generally considered active head of the bank. Both he and Mr. Black are of Greene County's best old stock. Mr. Black is a Baptist, Mr. Kramer a Methodist. Mr. Kramer used to be a general merchant. One of the directors is B. E. South, retired carpenter. Another is C. C. Davis who owns the motion picture house. Greensboro is a farming community but has been helped by coal developments. Last week when the bank did not open, Greensboro felt $368,000 poorer...
...university got its start in this way: first there was a row of books, usually belonging to a nobleman or rich merchant: next, there was a clique of young men who had obtained his permission to walk in and read the books and also his permission to copy them: then, as the news spread, scores, hundreds and even thousands of young men came pouring in from other cities, all ambitious after learning: by that time, the early comers had got well on in their study of the books and could help out beginners. Later on, helping out beginners became...
...India I saw what no one is likely to see again," reported Briton Brailsford. "Bombay obeyed two governments. "To the British government, with all its apparatus of legality and power, there still were loyal the European population, the Indian sepoys, who wear its uniform, a few of the merchant princes, and the older generation of the Moslem minority. "The rest of Bombay's population has transferred its allegiance to one of the British Government's too numerous prisoners: Mahatma Gandhi...
...consent of the White House, to provide President Hoover with a neat, complete "out" from the Prohibition controversy. As "proof" of this fabulous theory, the theorists pointed to the speed with which Attorney General Mitchell sent the case to the Supreme Court. Henri Mouquin, 93, famed oldtime Manhattan wine merchant and restaurateur, was "electrified" by the decision, wired from his Virginia retreat to his sons to prepare to get back into business...
...different has been the history of Brown Bros. & Co., as antiquely respectable among financial houses as Brown's Hotel of London is among hostelries. It was formed in 1825 by Alexander Brown, previously a linen merchant, and in 1833 devoted itself exclusively to finance. For 75 years the firm has been friendly with all Scandinavian countries. In England it is well known through its associate, Brown, Shipley & Co., in which Montagu Norman was a partner before he became head of the Bank of England. In Brown Bros, originated the Traveler's Letter of Credit. From the day when the first...