Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large Tokyo department store shrewd Merchant Hikoichie Nato looked out beneath his large level eyebrows at a pug-nosed intense young man in tortoise-shell glasses who offered to sell him a fat share of a fine, ruthless, patriotic Japanese Revolution. "We need 100,000 yen ($29,000)," explained Revolutionist Tatsuo Amano, a lawyer of nationwide notoriety since he defended the assassins of Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye and Financier Baron Dr. Takuma Dan (TIME, July 10, 1933). As the merchant hesitated, the revolutionist argued slyly: "Consider the 100,000 yen you contribute to our cause as an investment. Sell shares...
...Abraham Lazard Shushan was also the Senator's true-blue friend. It was he who rushed from the death bed with the first news of his chief's passing: "Huey's dead. It's terrible!" But Colonel Shushan, drygoods merchant, president of the New Orleans Levee Board and builder of one of the biggest, most expensive ($4,000,000) and most useless airports in the world for his personal glorification, was not destined to figure largely in the Long inheritance. Like Oscar Allen, his chief service to the Kingfish...
...Central Park, West, is attacked. Hugh Herbert adds another figure to his imposing list of characterizations in the person of one Homer Bronson, shyster lawyer with considerable experience in breaches of promise. The courtroom scene is hardly calculated to bring into one's mind a similar scene from the Merchant of Venice, still it has elements which place it among the great courtroom scenes of all time...
...observations of man and life which he put into Man, the Unknown began when Alexis Carrel, son of a silk merchant, was a medical student at the University of Lyons. There he acquired surgical dexterity by tying two pieces of catgut with his index and middle fingers inside a small cardboard box so securely that no one could untie them with two hands. He also achieved the feat of sewing 500 stitches into a single sheet of cigaret paper. Shortly after graduation he did two surgical tricks that brought him quick professional reputation. He devised the most successful...
...concern that was founded as a lumber company in 1852. It has smaller mills in Quebec, general offices in Portland. Me. and timber lands owned outright that are larger in area than the State of Connecticut. The original company was purchased during the Civil War by a Portland lumber merchant named William Wentworth Brown, who branched into paper & pulp in the 1890's. His four sons inherited the business and today are its only officers and directors. And his grandsons hold such key jobs as sales-manager, purchasing agent, head of manufacturing, manager of Canadian plants. President Herbert Jenkins...