Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honorable discharge papers are always on hand to prove to the Doubting Thomas that he IS an Armenian. Besides if he were a Turk, he wouldn't be able to win so many times! . . . Another false fact, deserving of enlightenment, is that Ekizian is not a former fish-peddler or short-order cook, as many newshawks have claimed. While here in the "City of Angels," he wasn't given the opportunity by local rasslin' moguls to display his true wares; the reason for his venture east. LEON ALVIN JACOBIAN...
Across a wrestling ring in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week two men growled and glowered at each other. Squatting in one corner, wearing a fancy ruby-colored robe with turban to match, was Arteen Ekizian, 30-year-old Turk, one time fish-peddler, U. S. sailor and Hollywood "extra." To 5,000 raucous spectators he was Ali Baba, the Terrible Turk of whom posters asked IS HE MAN OR BEAST? Ali Baba's head resembled a speckled ostrich egg. His upper lip was hidden behind a sweeping pair of handle bar mustachios. His teeth were jagged...
...succeed his father. Thereupon the British Army of Occupation skipped to the youngest of Ismail's twelve children, chose Fuad to be sultan and in 1922 made him King of Egypt, Sovereign of Nubia, the Sudan, Kordofan and Darfur. Thus the great-great-grandson of an Albanian tobacco peddler, the great Mohammed Ali, became the first sovereign in Egypt since Cleopatra died of an asp bite...
...publish that he did exhibit them on the floor," insisted Senator Byrnes, continuing with the Republican release: "Sarcastically-I can hear him now-Sarcastically Dickinson referred to the Roosevelt cure of slaughtering food animals, restricting the growing of grain. Then he said: 'Every gangster, every counterfeiter, every dope peddler now incarcerated in a Federal penitentiary not only lives better'-The writer of the Republican National Committee put these words in-he said with studied deliberation. . . ." Blushing to the roots of his white hair, Senator Dickinson made for the door...
Born in Bohemia 35 years ago, Marion Anthony Zioncheck was brought to Seattle as a child, grew up to be a fish peddler. He went to the University of Washington Law School, got himself elected president of the student body, behaved so obstreperously that fellow students clipped his pate, dumped him in Lake Washington. Marion Zioncheck began his legal career by being fined $25 for contempt of court after calling a witness a "scab." Later he successfully defended his mother on kidnapping charges. In 1932 Lawyer Zioncheck persuaded the Democratic voters of Washington's First Congressional District to send...