Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Merchant Marine?Charles Danielou...
...tons of alarm clocks, razors, motor cars and every imaginable manufactured article in unimaginable confusion. British, French and Italian freighters at piers hard by dumped too. Stevedores sweated, swore and slaved all night at both Alexandria and Port Said. The race was against time and tariffs with every Egyptian merchant interested in the results, most with heavy stakes...
...essential objection to the submarine is that it is a weapon particularly susceptible to abuse; that it is susceptible of use against merchant ships in a way that violates alike the laws of war and the dictates of humanity...
...agree to a total abolition of submarines if it is possible to obtain the consent of all five powers to such a proposition, and in any event we suggest that the operations of submarines be limited to the same rules of international law as surface craft in operation against merchant ships, so that they cannot attack without providing for the safety of the passengers and the crew...
...farmer of decidedly Hebraic aspect drawn last week by able Cartoonist Will Johnstone in the New York World. Cartoonist Johnstone's fantasy was inspired by the annual report of the Jewish Agricultural Society, Inc., whose president : no less eminent a Jew than Percy Selden Straus, famed Manhattan merchant-philanthropist (R. H. Macy & Co. Inc.). The report declared, to the surprise of Cartoonist Johnstone, that there are now some 90,000 Jewish farmers in the U. S. as against some 1,000 when the Agricultural Society was founded 30 years...