Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief distinction of My Life on the Frontier is its spectacular version of an old Western childhood. When Miguel Antonio Otero was a boy his father was a commission merchant, following the Kansas-Pacific Railroad as it was being built into Denver. He moved his business and family from wild Ellsworth, Kans., to wilder Hays City, where little Miguel saw Wild Bill Hickok kill one man, heard stories of his killing three more. He moved them from wicked Sheridan to the hunters' paradise of Kit Carson, at a time when Indians harried construction crews, burned bridges, sometimes attacked trains...
...last desperate effort to educate his sons, Merchant Otero sent them to Notre Dame, again to St. Louis University, where they enjoyed the city but did not attend classes. When 19-year-old Miguel returned to New Mexico, armed warfare had broken out between the Santa Fe and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroads, fighting for the Chicken Creek Route in strategic Raton Pass. Still quarreling with his father's partner, Miguel left the company, visited Denver, saw Leadville at the peak of its boom, became a member of the Chaffee Light Artillery of Colorado and served during the railroad...
...Sept. 28, 1943 Marshall Field III will be 50. When that day comes the handsome, affable grandson of Chicago's greatest merchant will inherit the bulk of the $140,000,000 fortune his grandfather founded in drygoods and grounded in real estate. But Marshall Field III will not have to wait nine years to become a millionaire because he was 40 times a millionaire when he was a schoolboy. Since then bright, popular, progressive Marshall III has done many things of which frosty old Grandfather Field, who stuck to store-keeping and detested sidelines, would not have approved...
Detective Cornish had been in Scotland Yard 18 years before he worked on a case that fitted the pattern of detective fiction. Portly "Cammi" Grizzard was a brilliant and resourceful man, a Jewish diamond merchant, notorious receiver of stolen goods, kindly leader of a large and loyal organization of thieves and spies. But police could not get evidence against him. Once his house was raided while he was dining the buyers of a stolen necklace; police found nothing, because "Cammi" dropped the necklace in his soup, calmly went on with his dinner. But when in 1913 "Cammi" Grizzard stole...
...Jones-White Merchant Marine Act of 1928, said the report, "has produced unconscionable exploiters intent upon wringing every possible penny from the public purse." Taking potshots at what it termed "corporate hocus-pocus," the report bristled with sardonic subheadings. Samples: Holding Companies are Devices for Fraud; The Corporate Web of I. M. M.; The Munson Maze; The Grace Enigma; The Deceptive A. G. W. I. Corporate Network; Millions Due the Government in Default, but Contractors and Lobbyists Continue to Profit...