Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred years ago, one of the first credit correspondents in the U.S. reported to the Mercantile Agency that Peddler James Sampson "drinks two glasses of cider brandy [applejack], plain, every morning and evening-never more; has lost a large double tooth on lower jaw, back, second from throat on left side; has a scar an inch long on his left leg kneepan; cause: cut himself with a hatchet when only three years old." Credit sleuths have been weighing financial responsibility with the most intimate details of a man's personal life ever since...
...summer home at Narragansett, occasionally throws quiet parties for her dancer colleagues. Otherwise she works her shapely legs off rehearsing, washes her own tights, spends her time on the sidelines cheering on the other members of the troupe. To Ballet Boss Hurok, who has managed everything from a peddler's pushcart to Isadora Duncan, Angel Chase is the answer to an impresario's dream-art's ardent athlete, a check's most beautiful signature. Says Sol of their joint enterprise: "The Ballet Theatre combines financial respectability with artistical principle...
Many a rural Texan firmly believes that W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel, the crooning flour peddler, is the plain man's answer to "professional politicians." The plain people of Texas twice elected him Governor, then sent him to the Senate. But this week, as Pappy sought to succeed himself in Texas' primary, he discovered that ignorance may not be as highly regarded by the voters as it once...
...three cases up for decision, the Court ruled that Jehovah's Witnesses (a band of religious zealots who do most of their proselyting by peddling or handing out pamphlets from door to door) can be forced by any town they visit to pay a prohibitively high peddler's tax for the right to distribute their pamphlets...
When World War II began, German-born George Viereck again peddled ideology for the Fatherland and profit. A naturalized U.S. citizen, registered in Washington as a German-paid "author and journalist," he had a legal peddler's license, drew down more than $100,000 for lauding Adolf Hitler and excoriating the British. Still confident that there was no "infallible safeguard" against propaganda, he said: "I have always regarded it almost a consecration to interpret the land of my fathers to the land of my children...