Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assisting Rodman Wanamaker take care of the Widow Harding's affairs. When she died, he went with Mr. Wanamaker to the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Commission (1926). Finally President Coolidge unobtrusively tucked him away into the U. S. Shipping Board, as assistant to James Caldwell Jenkins, vice president of Merchant Fleet Corp. Last week George Christian gladly resigned that place. Samuel Ungerleider, who a month ago resigned from the brokerage firm of Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider to become president of Distillers and Brewers Corp. of America, made a position for him in the sales department of Distillers & Brewers. Distillers & Brewers...
...Michigan the House of Representatives voted down Governor Comstock's plan for state-owned liquor stores, passed a substitute measure allowing "every responsible hotel and merchant" to sell liquor by the package. The Massachusetts House broke a two-day deadlock to pass a measure allowing licensed "taverns" to sell drinks by the glass...
...week's biggest winner. Louis Ribiere. 32, a small coal-&-wood merchant of Avignon. At dawn he was irritably reaching for his breakfast coffee in an Avignon bistro when the barman pushed him a copy of the morning paper. Ribiere's eye fell on the news that his ticket had won the 5,000,000 franc ($323,000) Grand Prize. He whirled, leaped into the air, vanished out the door, homeward bound to check his ticket number. It checked. He ran back through Avignon's narrow streets to the building where his mother is a janitress. Yipping...
...appeared in Philadelphia in Russian costumes complete with high boots. Before Mr. Bullitt divorced her in 1930, she encouraged him to expose the foibles of his class in It's Not Done, a slashing novel in which scandalized Philadelphians thought they recognized Financier Stotes-bury. Merchant Wanamaker and Sateve-poster Curtis, all deftly mocked...
...into capitalistic and wage-earning classes. A few of the poor free men being more ingenious than the rest, turned then talents to the manufacture of goods offered first for barter and later for sale. Here we have the beginning of the artisan class. At a later date the merchant class sprang up to facilitate the process of exchange...