Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crisis occurred fortnight ago. One Alfred G. Smyth, patriotic Samoan merchant returned from a two-year exile incurred by asking embarrassing questions in 1928. Welcoming him at the dockside was a delegation of the Mau, and a watchful detachment of New Zealand constabulary. Leading cheers for the return of Al Smyth was the only survivor of Samoa's royal family, the High Chief Tamasese. In the excitement of the moment someone hit a constable by the name of Abraham on the head, with fatal results. There was a burst of gunfire. A moment later High Chief Tamasese and seven other...
Coins denominated the puffin and half-puffin-respectively worth a British penny and half-penny-have just gone into circulation among the 40 dwellers on Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, also called "Puffin Island." Both half and whole puffins bear the likeness of Martin Coles Harman, Esq., London merchant, who bought Puffin Island in 1925 and plays at being its king. On the "tails" side of a puffin is the head of a puffin (sea bird with a parrotlike beak and white cheeks). Puffin Islanders also have puffin stamps. red and green, in puffin and half-puffin de nominations...
Married. Julius Rosenwald, 67, Chicago merchant (Sears, Roebuck & Co.) and charitarian; and Mrs. Adelaide Rau Goodkind, 60, of St. Paul, his eldest son's mother-in-law; at his son's home, in Abington Township, Pa. His first wife died last May; Mrs. Rosenwald's first husband died eleven years ago. Rich in her own right, Mrs. Rosenwald received $1,000,000 dowry from her new husband...
Familiar is the story of the small merchant who, unable to meet his notes, said to his banker: "Were you ever in the pants business?" The banker replied that he certainly never was. "Well," said the small merchant, shrugging his shoulders...
...mouths of pedagogs but from Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant (Wm. Filene's Sons Co.), charitarian, peace promoter, came a solution of pedagogical salary woes. Businessman Filene, whose who in Who's Who describes him as agitating to "increase wages and profits and raise the general standards of living," suggested a mild form of intellectual boycott. Said he, in a letter to the Association: "My hope is that our teachers will prove to be sufficiently selfish. Then it will be up to the colleges to find a way to keep them from accepting offers which they...