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...Nazi spree April 1 celebrating the anti-Jewish boycott, one Eduard Salamo, 51, vegetable peddler, remarked that he saw Storm Troopers kill several Jews in Leipzig. Last week he got eight months...
When Gustavus Franklin Swift, fifth son and namesake of the Cape Cod meat peddler who founded the House of Swift, became president in 1931, his company had just reported annual sales of $900,000,000. As Depression began to pull down meat prices, hard-working Gus Swift, whose wife bitterly complains that he never has time for play, kept on buying hogs, sheep, cattle. Though his dollar volume dwindled, he processed almost as much meat as he ever had before. ''It was our job to see that the daily cash market . . . was kept open...
...candidate incorporate the solicitation of advertising, the collection of accounts receivable, and the performance of several small routine jobs. These duties enable a candidate to come in contact with many interesting personalities, from a colorful nightclub owner to the manager of a large brokerage house, from a newspaper peddler to the manager of a large department store. In this field one has the chance to make a delightful study of character. Without doubt, the greatest single advantage of the competition is the development of a candidate's self-confidence. He learns the art of meeting personalities and mastering novel situations...
...returned it. When Sharkey won his only decisive round - the seventh - Levinsky came back to pump blow after blow at Sharkey's head, then at his body. After ten fast savage rounds, the judges unanimously gave the decision to Chicago's Levinsky, highly elating the onetime fish peddler's Maxwell Street friends, many of whom had climbed over Comiskey Park's fence to watch the bout...
Chicago's first major trade racket mur der occurred on the warm afternoon of Aug. 3, 1926 when Morris Markowitz, one time Russian pushcart peddler who be came an independent teamster but refused to join a ruthless teamsters' union, was shot down at 37th & Princeton Streets. Since then no less than 274 business rackets have been uncovered, varying from bootblacks, fish dealers and candy jobbers to garagemen, glaziers and electricians...