Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doors away Pascal Oldham, 78, hardware merchant, was locking up his store when he turned to see a car flash by, to hear guns crackle. A stray bullet drilled clean through his head. Hours later he died in a hospital...
...this time a wordy battle was going on in Insull's apartment between Mrs. Insull and the spectacular Mme Zahra Couyoumdjoglou, wife of a Bagdad date merchant who has been a bosom friend of Samuel Insull since his arrival in Athens. Mrs. Insull had wanted her husband to surrender and take his chances in the U. S. courts. That seemed too prosaic for Mme Couyoumdjoglou who arranged the Odyssey of the Maiotis...
...town's four newspapers, carried this announcement : "It appearing to be the disposition of the gentlemen of this city to establish a bank on liberal principles, the stock to consist of specie only, they are therefore invited to meet tomorrow evening, at six o'clock, at the Merchants' Coffee-House, where a plan will be submitted for their consideration." Up to that time there had been no bank in New York. Until three years before when Bank of North America (now part of The Pennsylvania Co. for Insurance of Lives & Granting Annuities) was found ed in Philadelphia...
Moreover the University is absolutely sure of getting its money. No bad debts can exist behind the compulsory bond. The concession is a virtual miniature gold mine. In the square on the other hand where prices are far more nominal, charge accounts exist in sparcity because the merchant has no positive guarantee. Consequently students are driven into the arms of the Night Lunch Counter because there a charge account is accepted. One thing must be done to end this gross exploitation. The University must run the Night Lunch on a non-profit basis and make public its accounts to guarantee...
...organize and bargain collectively. Nobody except some of the old dealers would stand in the way of such a progressive and forward looking principle today. But the bill goes far beyond any such objective. It prohibits an employer, ranging all the way from the small business man or merchant with two or three employees or clerks up to the industrialist with his large army of workers, from opening his mouth to utter a word that could possibly be construed as "influence" upon the "policies" or "operations" of any labor organization...