Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris last week Minister of Merchant Marine Leon Meyer announced that when accountants went over the French Line's books last spring, preparatory to the Government's granting a larger subsidy, the accountants over-estimated the French Line's losses by one billion francs...
...almost three hundred years ago when Edward Hopkins carried Anne Yale across his polished threshold into the comfort of a well-appointed home. Governor Hopkins was a busy man, a wealthy London merchant, but well he understood the Chaucer's exclamation "on bokes." As befitted his wealth and inclination, the good man's library was a matter of envy; and in the long absences of her husband, Mistress Anne, being a "goodly young woman of special parts," was quick to 'sconce herself in the deep chairs and seek companionship in that cozy den. Too long however did the small head...
...kindly twinkle in his eyes, he struck me as being the ideal representative of the Iowa agriculturist." But Mr. Cook was no farmer. Born in New York State, he had lived in Iowa more than half a century, first as a grain dealer, later as a farm implement merchant...
Learned counsel pleaded the defense: Charles Henry Tuttle, onetime U. S. Attorney (New York), and Joseph E. Davies, onetime Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. President William Green of A. F. of L., Senator Copeland of New York and Washington, Merchant Julius Garfinckel came to praise the defendant's character. So did Edward ("Just Call Me Eddie") McCloskey, ex-prize-fighting Mayor of Johnstown, Pa., who offered B. E. F. mendicants a home and then had to run them out. Said Mayor McCloskey: "I didn't think the Hoover Administration was so dumb as to put on anything like this...
Sons takes up the tale where The Good Earth dropped it, at Wang Lung's death. His three sons, Wang the Landlord, Wang the Merchant, Wang the Soldier, divide the property. Wang the Soldier, who likes to be called Wang the Tiger, takes his in cash. He has a scheme to revolt against his aging general, lead the best of his troops to another province and set up as a war lord for himself. His scheme succeeds, and when he delivers his chosen province from the tyranny of The Hawk, brigand in residence there, he finds his career ready...