Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price schedule, but, meantime, violators would be turned over to the Federal Trade Commission unless they promised to go and sin no more against Recovery. On the strength of this combined promise and threat, 50 of the littlest cleaners knuckled under, among them the St. Petersburg, Fla. "pressing-club" proprietor whom Federal Judge Akerman, on a technicality, had exculpated from the charge of "chiseling" the NRA fortnight before (TIME, Dec. 11). Those big enough to have lawyers for the most part did not knuckle under. Hysterically cried one Irving Brukstone, representing Chicago's Sterling Cleaners...
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Hoopla (Fox) is a tardy adaptation of Kenyon Nicholson's famed play The Barker, directed by Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade, Berkeley Square) and designed to re-establish the vanished prestige of Actress Clara Bow. She is Lou, hardboiled dancer in a carnival, who, to oblige the mistress of the proprietor (Preston Foster), makes advances to his callow son (Richard Cromwell), ends by marrying...
Concerning the package store, both Senator Putnam and Representative Dever did not believe that it should be kept away from the neighborhood of the University. "The proprietor should not neglect to ascertain the age of his customer," explained Mr. Dever. "It is like selling 'dirty' books; the storekeeper has his conscience for his judge as to whether he should make the sale or not. He must remember the responsibility that is put into his hands, and also that his license can be immediately revoked if he breaks...
...named Edith Boiling was born in 1872 with the noteworthy distinction of being a descendant (in the ninth generation) of Pocahontas. In 1915 she acquired further distinction by becoming the third woman in history* to marry a U. S. President while he was in office. Last week as sole proprietor of a famed 131-year-old business she acquired distinction for business ideals. When the present Widow Wilson married Norman Gait in 1896 she married the scion of an established institution. The jewelry firm of Gait & Bro. was founded in Alexandria, Va. in 1802. In 1825 it moved to Pennsylvania...