Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plucked from Alcatraz Island Prison in San Francisco Bay by the deportation order with which President Roosevelt purged Federal prisons of 151 aliens last month (TIME, Aug. 5) was one William Henry Ambrose, onetime Chicago drug peddler. Before he was shipped back to his native England last week Convict Ambrose gave newshawks a first-hand picture of life inside the great, grey fortress-prison reserved for the most dangerous Federal criminals in the land. Excerpts...
...candies made from corn, spinach, beets, carrots, peas. Too proud to tell his wife what he was doing, he explained each night that he "sold to old customers." One day a newshawk discovered him. When the story of his plight was published, letters and checks poured into his apartment. Peddler Washburne returned the checks with thanks, kept on selling his candies. Finally a Long Island candy manufacturer named Joseph B. Kaufman called to say that he wanted to buy Mr. Washburne's formula for "Vegecandies...
...East Boston, a junk peddler pulled his wagon away himself when his horse dropped dead on the street. Seven hours later he went back with hammer and chisel, knocked off the dead horse's shoes, took them home. Police removed the horse...
...Fisticuffer Harry Krakow ("King Levinsky"),* onetime Chicago fish-peddler, 1934 was a miserable year. In January his sister & manager, "Leaping Lena" Levinsky, divorced her husband in order to have more time to run her brother's affairs. In March he was thrashed by German Walter Neusel. In May, he went to a hospital, for a minor breakdown. In August, he married one Rosie Glickman ("Roxanne Carmine"), World's Fair fan dancer. A month later, Rosie Glickman sued King Levinsky for divorce because he hit her on the jaw. Last month, King Levinsky was matched to fight a four...
...registered. Founded in the second year of President Jefferson's first term (1801-05), Scovill is the epitome of all good things Yankee. It was started as a brass-button factory. Scovill buttons and Scovill notions were the best stock-in-trade of every 19th Century peddler from Bangor to the Yazoo Delta. Scovill made plates for daguerreotypes. Scovill made the Queen Anne burners for the lamps Rockefeller filled with kerosene. Scovill made time fuses, bullet jackets, shell cases in the War. And today the average U. S. citizen seldom goes from dawn to dusk without using a half...