Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tangible property owned by Americans in foreign countries." Admiral Mahan, he said, widened the concept of national defense to include the defense of these national interests. The difficulty with these however, is that they are often contradictory, and the national government makes no attempt as a private merchant would do to draw up some balance sheet and weigh the advantages and disadvantages. It is this idea of a balance sheet that Mr. Beard laid great stress upon...
...most pretentious and elaborate of its productions to date. A first play by Melvin Levy, it is the story of a robustious young seaman who comes to California in 1862 and remains, fascinated by the lure of yellow gold, to build with unscrupulous hand a vast merchant fleet. If the result falls somewhat short of an epic, the cast and the settings are not to blame...
...Department of Justice could do nothing for young Brooke Hart, son of a San José, Calif, drygoods merchant. His kidnappers killed him almost as soon as they captured him last November. They were lynched, to the great satisfaction of California's late Governor Rolph...
...times did Republican Peterson of Snohomish go to Seattle to sell State Chairman Jay Noble Emerson, and ten times was he turned away. So Nominee Peterson began crying out at Republican rallies that Chairman Emerson, conservative Pullman merchant, was subtly working for his defeat by withholding campaign cooperation. Last week at a G. O. P. meeting at Bellingham. again outside the doors of a party clam-dinner from the rostrum of which he had been excluded, Rev. Payson Peterson loudly demanded Chairman Emerson's resignation, charged that Emerson was getting not only his funds but his directions from William...
...speed merchant," he likes to say. His showing last week in the race to Australia did his reputation and that of his merchandise more good than all the tricky publicity with which his name today is encumbered...