Word: onions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appealing largely to farmers, Onion-Farmer Hepburn made the C. I. O. his campaign issue, was photographed visiting the Dionne quintuplets and boasted that his action at Oshawa had saved the Province from the terrorizing of "foreign agitators." That was good enough for Ontario...
Jews are the world's biggest consumers of onions and there are more Jews in New York City than anywhere else in the world. Therefore Manhattan is the world's onion capital. There in a slick red and white office with a deep onion aroma, at 40 Harrison St., works sleek, well-fed Benjamin Balish, 41, who bears the proud title of U. S. "Onion King." Last week Ben Balish, after years of distinguished partnerships, completed arrangements for going into business solely for himself...
...thriving trade in spoiled pineapples which he bought in bulk at extremely cheap prices (sometimes $5 for a shipload) and sold by pushcart along the docks. By the time he was 13 he had $5,300, spent it all buying his parents a home. Then he noticed that Jewish onion buyers were having a horrid time in the onion market on Pier 17. Onion salesmen were mostly boisterous Irishmen who loved to pull down Jewish derbies and yank Jewish beards. Having neither beard nor derby, Ben Balish set himself up as a middleman in onions, soon did magnificently...
Next Balish partner was Abraham Rosenblum, "Onion King" in 1918 when young Ben went to work for him. Three years later, having saved $35,000, Onionman Balish joined forces with a rich 50-year-old produce jobber named Carl I. Dingfelder. Dingfelder put up most of the money, Balish the onion experience, and by 1923 Dingfelder & Balish were tops in onion jobbing...
...administration of the estate costs $2,000,000, Mr. McCraw figured that the estate will fall short of meeting taxes, but certainly some of the tax bills will be pared when the Supreme Court finally determines the domicile of the late Edward Rowland Robinson Green, son of onion-eating Hetty, who hated lawyers...