Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protested against the Dollar Line's getting $42,000,000 a year in mail subsidy, saying: "Just as sure as God made little apples, if we go into this round-the-world contract on an other 10 or 12 or 15 million dollars . . . we will spill the American merchant marine program. We must not do anything to upset the political applecart, as that is our life blood. Congressman Free has absolutely told the Post Office Department, and he is very close to one Herbert Hoover, that if Dollar gets any more money he will expose the whole thing...
...last October one of Washington's oldest merchants who has done business on the same spot for 28 years proudly issued a press release. The spot: intersection of Pennsylvania and East Executive Avenues, northeast corner of the White House grounds. The merchant: Nicholas Stephanos Vasilakos, proprietor of a peanut stand. The Press release, written in pencil on an empty popcorn bag: "Was certainly a great pleasure for me to wait on a new customer today at noon. The First Lady of the Land stopped by my stand and purchased a bag of fresh roasted popcorn for pastime while...
Classes are held one evening each week. In the directors room of American State Savings Bank citizens wrestle with Political Science ("Business brains becoming active here, will build stronger political leadership") under Businessman John F. Brisbin, assisted by Clothing Merchant Louis May and Editorial Writer Glenn K. Stimson of the Lansing State Journal. Division Superintendent F. W. Openlander of Reo Motor Car Co. goes to Olds Motor Administration Building to lead discussions of Current Industrial Problems. Lawyer William H. Wise teaches Effective Speaking ("Not more talk, but more effective talk") at the Reo Club House. James E. Moroney, young Olds...
Died. Henry Mouquin, 97, famed Manhattan restaurateur and wine merchant; of old age; at his Williamsburg, Va. estate which he bought in 1871, and to which he retired in disgust at the advent of Prohibition. Born near Lausanne to a family of Swiss hotelkeepers. he used to say that his father fed him a spoonful of wine before he was allowed to suckle. Next to Prohibition, he detested the machine age, refused to use a telephone or ride in an automobile. His favorite vehicle was a coach, originally built for President James Monroe, which he bought in 1870. Sometimes...
Cheek by jowl with the opposing roads was American Trucking Association, at whose business store-door service was squarely aimed. The Merchant Truckmen's Bureau of New York last week hotly wired President Roosevelt: "We are not opposed to store-door . . . service as a principle but ... we feel that no railroad should be permitted to claim unproved economies in justification of performing a service for nothing, or at an uneconomical charge, to the complete destruction of the local trucking industry. . . . Obviously this contravenes practically every alleged purpose of the National Industrial Recovery...