Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Gardner, Mass., Harrison Cady has had a busy and remunerative career. His father was Town Selectman and prosperous proprietor of the general store, who studied trees and animals with his son, encouraged his early sketches. When that loquacious African explorer, the late Paul Belloni du Chaillu, went to Gardner to lecture* young Harrison Cady decorated his poster in the store window with a fine display of lions, elephants, and gorillas. Explorer du Chaillu was delighted, and at the age of 17 Harrison Cady arrived in New York to be an artist. He had an easy success. He illustrated...
...last October one of Washington's oldest merchants who has done business on the same spot for 28 years proudly issued a press release. The spot: intersection of Pennsylvania and East Executive Avenues, northeast corner of the White House grounds. The merchant: Nicholas Stephanos Vasilakos, proprietor of a peanut stand. The Press release, written in pencil on an empty popcorn bag: "Was certainly a great pleasure for me to wait on a new customer today at noon. The First Lady of the Land stopped by my stand and purchased a bag of fresh roasted popcorn for pastime while...
...Roosevelt: 1) visiting Orange, Va., lunched in a tearoom where the proprietor's dog jumped in her lap; when the embarrassed proprietor hastily called "Come here. Hoover!" Mrs. Roosevelt smiled, patted the terrier affectionately; 2) was speaker at a dinner of 500 women conferees on the Cause and Cure of War, told them: "I believe any one who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide, but most people don't think. . . . How deadly stupid we are. . . ."; 3) turned over her regular press conference to Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey who told the disappointed newshawks...
...side of the road. He looked at the two passengers. A sheepish grin came over his face. He waved them on. At Holbrook, Ariz., stopping for the night, they registered as Robert Brown and Mary Jones, took rooms 12 & 17. Next morning as they paid their bill, Hotel Proprietor Joe Gerwitz looked at the woman in dark glasses, smirked. They sped away, stopped at Williams for gasoline. The filling station man looked at them, grinned. When they reached Grand Canyon they registered as Mary Jones and Robert Bonji, took a three room suite, changed to hiking togs, went...
...rushed into the breach. Oct. 10-With strikes still pocking the nation from coast to coast, General Johnson warns the A. F. of L. convention: "The plain, stark truth is that you cannot tolerate the strike. . . . Public confidence will turn against you!" First crackdown, on a Gary, Ind. roadhouse proprietor, whose Blue Eagle is recalled. Oct. 12-Weirton Steel strike starts. Oct. 25-Administrator Johnson announces NRA's reorganization into four industrial divisions. A fifth division, compliance, he personally takes in charge. Nov. 17-Steel, pointing to a 32.1% increase in wages, a 28.3% increase in payroll, announces...