Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellow-boarder, a crippled youth who was no less prim of speech than she, but she guarded her virginal beauty for a vague another. More by good luck than good management she escaped the snares laid by a wily woman-hunter and the cruder advances of a loathsome dope-peddler. Fittingly established at last as private secretary to a rich lady of charitarian views, Mary (now Marilyn) met the man of her dreams, who turned out to be an inventor of genius, a gentleman born, and a landed proprietor. All the signs were right; Mary let culture go, fell into...
...Each declines to tell his age. Each performs good works among poor Negroes. Each lulls his followers with a catchword (Father Divine's: "Peace, It's Wonderful''). Each preaches a warm, rambling theology. But Elder Michaux makes no claim to divinity. Once a fish peddler in Norfolk, he preached in Hopewell, Va., went to Washington in 1929 to found the Church of God under the Gospel Spreading Association. A small Alexandria radio station, WJSV, began picking up his services. When CBS absorbed WJSV, Elder Michaux was the only feature retained for the chain...
...sexpartite municipal bond house was established in Manhattan by what onetime foreign newspaper peddler...
...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...