Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Mona Fox, 30, daughter of retired Cinemagnate William Fox; and Joseph Riskin, 45, Manhattan diamond merchant; in Miami Beach...
...unwarranted assumption to state that, despite the best efforts of the police, beer will be sold in Cambridge either directly to, or for consumption by, minors. Beer is traditionally a college man's drink. And any merchant with a proper eye to his own interest will be none too anxious to require the display of birth certificates. Morally, moreover, the sale of beer to students, albeit minors, would be a move toward temperance in the college, would be rather more in keeping with the spirit of the present liquor legislation, one suspects, than are the widely flung photographs of hilarious...
Jurors were then picked, sworn in. The prosecution concentrated on rural talesmen. The defense wanted young white-collar men who might have come in contact with urban liberalism. Attorney Knight got three farmers; others chosen were a draftsman, a mill worker, two bookkeepers, a merchant, a barber, a bank cashier, a motor salesman. One man was unemployed. It appeared that the defense, with two challenges to the State's one, had gotten a shade the better of the selection...
Proudly disporting herself in a new dress, hat or fur, many a U. S. lady has lately been distressed to find that the first time she wore it out on a damp day the garment emitted an atrocious odor. The retail merchant to whom she returned the dress, hat or fur has usually been nonplussed. . . . Fearful of losing trade, clothing manufacturers have hushed up the situation which causes this unpleasant phenomenon. Last week in Manhattan the story of cause & cure came to light...
Ships. Kermit Roosevelt and John Franklin (son of P. A. S. Franklin), vice presidents of the U. S. Lines, last week informed Merchant Fleet Corp. (subsidiary of the U. S. Shipping Board) that they would like to lay up the Leviathan, or better still sell it back to the U. S. Reason: the contract by which the Leviathan was purchased requires it to make seven Atlantic crossings a year; competition from new foreign ships and reduced ocean travel cause so great a loss on each crossing that it eats up the Line's profits from other ships. Merchant Fleet...