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Bummy, born Abraham Davidoff in the brick jungles of Brooklyn's Brownsville, made his first impact on the world as a boy knish-peddler. In a short time he had all but eliminated competition, not through business acumen but by belting the brains out of other little knish peddlers...
...nonstop campaign to break up Alcoa, the Government called Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis, 77, onetime $60-a-month peddler of pots & pans, to the witness stand for seven straight weeks, five days a week...
Three years ago this month four of Adam Gimbel's descendants journeyed to the mellow, elm-shaded town of Vincennes, Ind. (pop. 18,228). There they commemorated the 100th anniversary of the opening of Peddler Adam's wondrous "Palace of Trade," with the prediction: "The best 100 years lie ahead." Last week the Gimbel mercantile dynasty proudly ended its best year. The gross for 1944 was estimated at an alltime high of upwards of $190 million. Result: Gimbel's, in fourth place in 1942, is now the leading metropolitan department store chain...
...Manhattan's hooligan Lawyer Richard Allen Knight, who once stood on his head outside the Metropolitan Opera House; and Reville Kniffen, 39, onetime cinema executive, now vice president of Zenith Home Products; in Reno Nev. Fumed ex-Husband Knight: "He's nothing but a traveling salesman-a peddler of B-pictures. . . . She's headline-crazy. Mrs. Knight will come crawling back...
...Generalissimo had heard before about the evils of China's conscription system. Only last spring he had forbidden the roping of conscripts. Now he questioned the roped men. One man said he was a peddler. He had been doing business along the road. An armed gang had pounced on him. Now he was conscripted...