Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nonstop campaign to break up Alcoa, the Government called Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis, 77, onetime $60-a-month peddler of pots & pans, to the witness stand for seven straight weeks, five days a week...
Three years ago this month four of Adam Gimbel's descendants journeyed to the mellow, elm-shaded town of Vincennes, Ind. (pop. 18,228). There they commemorated the 100th anniversary of the opening of Peddler Adam's wondrous "Palace of Trade," with the prediction: "The best 100 years lie ahead." Last week the Gimbel mercantile dynasty proudly ended its best year. The gross for 1944 was estimated at an alltime high of upwards of $190 million. Result: Gimbel's, in fourth place in 1942, is now the leading metropolitan department store chain...
...Manhattan's hooligan Lawyer Richard Allen Knight, who once stood on his head outside the Metropolitan Opera House; and Reville Kniffen, 39, onetime cinema executive, now vice president of Zenith Home Products; in Reno Nev. Fumed ex-Husband Knight: "He's nothing but a traveling salesman-a peddler of B-pictures. . . . She's headline-crazy. Mrs. Knight will come crawling back...
...Generalissimo had heard before about the evils of China's conscription system. Only last spring he had forbidden the roping of conscripts. Now he questioned the roped men. One man said he was a peddler. He had been doing business along the road. An armed gang had pounced on him. Now he was conscripted...
...When he veered toward liberalism, the left-wing needle trades union called him "a deserter." "This wounded his moral self-esteem," and he resigned in "disgust with the whole mess." Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the I.L.G.W.U. Born in Lithuania, Schlesinger began his U.S. life as a boy match peddler in the Chicago slums. "The really dominant emotional undertone in Schlesinger's long career was a deep, almost fierce devotion to this country and its democratic institutions." For him "America was liberty." Later, in the I.L.G.W.U. 's long civil war of right wing v. left wing, Schlesinger fell...