Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointment of Joe Kennedy had not been obvious. A star baseball player at Harvard at 20, a bank president at 26; a peanut peddler on Boston excursion boats at 9, a cinemagnate at 36; a pool operator in liquor stocks at 45, chairman of SEC at 46, Joe Kennedy at 49 is a chameleon. Not the least chameleon-like of his traits is that he is a close friend and supporter of Franklin Roosevelt, yet trusted by Business...
...currently operating in the U. S. It is in no sense a burlesque. Jeff Kincaid (Herbert Jeffries) is very much in earnest about keeping Wolf Cain (Maceo B. Sheffield) from grabbing the cache of gold hidden many years ago by Doc Clayburn (Spencer Williams Jr.). Doc, now an honest peddler of snakebite remedies wants to return the money to the people he took it from in his outlaw days. His daughter, Carolina (Connie Harris), knows they never will be happy lessen he do. But Doc dies in a gun battle and the sheriff, with Jeff's aid, gives Wolf...
...melancholy facts trouble everyone in the junk business.* In Chicago the junk business is especially troubled, for retail junk shop owners for the last two months have been having trouble with the men who collect and sell them their scrap. About 1,500 junkmen, members of the United Junk Peddlers' Association-a C. I. O. affiliate -struck against the retailers for union recognition and a closed shop. Retailers promptly had peddler pickets clapped in jail. Chicago's Judge Michael Feinberg refused an injunction to restrain the police, told the junkmen they were not employes but independent merchants...
...left-wing awe as he recounts how the seven sons of Jewish immigrant Meyer Guggenheim of Philadelphia made the family the second or third richest in the U. S., comparable in the scope of its clannish money-making only to the Rothschilds. Starting in 1847 as a pack peddler of household knickknacks along the muddy roads outside Philadelphia, vigorous, good-humored Meyer Guggenheim acquired a peddler's limp that never left him. When he began peddling stove polish of his own manufacture, he made more money, soon owned a tailor shop, a grocery store, became a wholesaler for household...
Habitual million-dollar gates died with Tex Rickard and the Coolidge boom. But Rickard, for all his promotional flair, never made the money out of the fight business that Mike Jacobs has. A peanut peddler and candy butcher on Coney Island excursion boats, Mike Jacobs first began doing business with Rickard in 1916 when Rickard moved into New York with the Jess Willard-Frank Moran championship fight. Jacobs bought up a huge block of tickets, paid Rickard a premium and sold them for a profit. Years later, as boxing promoter at Madison Square Garden, Rickard was supposed to have continued...