Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crusading U. S. merchant of church supplies, Horace Lytton Varian, president of Baltimore's Ammidon & Co., the Sheffield incident was very satisfying. Mr. Varian, an Episcopal church usher himself, has no high opinion of some churchgoers. He calls those who do not give liberally "snitchers" and "ecclesiastical lice." As an expert on collections who knows that open plates do not encourage largess in the U. S. he predicted last week that in Sheffield Mr. Ashcroft's 20% increase would soon dwindle...
...Composer Bloch fervor has always been instinctive. When he was a youngster running about the shop of his clock merchant father in Geneva, he made a vow that he would become a composer. Unlike most little boys, who would have made the vow and let it go at that, Bloch wrote it out on a scrap of paper, buried it under a mound of stones, built a fire over it, and mumbled incantations while he watched the burning embers...
Died, Honore Palmer Jr.. 29. artist, grandson of Chicago's late great Merchant Potter Palmer; of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered during setting up exercises; in Manhattan...
...Chairman of the Maritime Commission, whose report on the U. S. Merchant Marine last fall scored both shipowners and sailors, was (1 Joseph P. Kennedy, 2 Eugene Vidal, 3 Royal S. Copeland, 4 Harold 5. Walker, 5 George E. T. Eyston...
...report of the Maritime Commission of the condition of the U. S. Merchant Marine advised shipping lines to (1 build a new luxury liner larger than the Queen Mary, 2. go into the business of transoceanic air transport instead of building superliners, 3 stand on their own feet and not demand Government subsidies, 4 hire only union men, 5 hire more Annapolis graduates as ship's officers...