Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunny sidewalk outside a bookstore on Hollywood's North Vermont Avenue, a legless pencil peddler had set up his pitch. A pretty young woman knelt down beside him and began to ask him questions. Did he think Communists should be barred from jobs in vital U.S. industries? In a muddy Italian accent the peddler replied that he knew nothing about Communists, but he did know that he was paying too much for his $40-a-month room. Did he know who John L. Lewis was? That was easier. "Eez a boxer. A fighter...
...halting replies did not disconcert her. She jotted down each one with meticulous care. When it was all over (it had taken 30 minutes), she made a few more notes at the bottom of her clipboard. Telephone? "No." Union member? "No." "Man." "White." She thanked the peddler and moved on to the park adjoining Central Public Library in dirty, downtown Los Angeles...
...building, to partake of the free beer and listen to the serenade of a pick-up band. Forty-five minutes later every white shoe and club tie in Cambridge was there, but for some reason the animals were not. A murmur of expectation ran through the crowd as a peddler passed by with his horse and wagon, but negotiations failed...
Author Mauriac is no peddler of religious tracts; one need not share his faith to appreciate his virtues as a novelist. Few of his characters achieve spiritual peace, but they get rid of the self-deception that stands...
...stand on the 1927 execution of famed Radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Ten years ago Democratic Governor Charles F. Hurley curtly rejected the offer of a bronze bas-relief, designed by the late mountain-sculpturing Gutzon Borglum, as a memorial to "the good shoemaker and the poor fish peddler." Last week Republican Governor Robert F. Bradford just as firmly turned it down again. This time the committee that offered it to the state was headed by Harvard Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger...