Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goofed. In Chicago, after a federal agent had spent six months talking bop language to win his confidence before arresting him as a narcotics peddler, Willie Hill, 32, commented: "I'm real down. Here I thought that cat was the coolest. He turned out to be nowhere...
Early every Wednesday morning, a Polish-born ex-peddler rides in a chauffeured limousine to the Pink House, headquarters of Argentina's federal government. Smiling and confident, he takes his place among the high officials gathered for the weekly Cabinet meeting presided over by early-rising Strongman Juan Perón. The ex-peddler is José B. Gelbard, 38, a well-to-do clothing wholesaler and president of the fast-growing General Economic Confederation (C.G.E.), a government-sponsored association that speaks for Argentine business...
Higher Law. In Vancouver, B.C., convicted of concealing a felony when he refused to identify two gunmen who had attempted to kill him, suspected Drug Peddler William ("Bill the Painter") Semenick explained to police that he was silent because "I am on one side of the fence, and you are on the other...
...comic staple in the neighborhood theaters. In Knock on Wood, Danny Kaye renewed his lease on the adjective "incomparable," and with Dial M for Murder and Rear Window, the year's best thrillers, Alfred Hitchcock held his title as the world's foremost goose'esh-peddler...
...should hang its head in shame for the smearing article on Dr. Albert Einstein in its Nov. 22 issue. I feel sure there are millions of Americans who agree with me in objecting to your interpretation of his statement "I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances." A man who so keenly feels his responsibility to mankind is certainly not to be condemned for his desire for more independence...