Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hostess Morgan said: "It's not for sale, but I'll help you start one in Dallas" [where Agent Tyson had said he lived...
...Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin cabled a stern protest to Bucharest, last week, protesting a high-handed sale by the Rumanian Government of some 200 small Soviet steamers and fishing boats, which have been seized in Rumanian waters...
...Frank Richardson, then acting as the New York representative of many a country newspaper. Young Block became adept in garnering rich advertising contracts. By 1898 he felt able to start out in business for himself. Ten years later, he bought the Newark Star-Eagle at a receiver's sale for $235,000. It required all his savings in cash, some...
Memorable was the defense of the penny as a buying unit by Emile C. Schurmacher, managing editor of The Candy Gazette. Editor Schurmacher wrote to the New York Times: "There has been a steady increase in the sale of penny candy (red hots, all-day suckers, 'lickerish' shoe laces). . . . If there is anybody who is offsetting the younger generation's contempt for the penny as a medium of exchange, it is the penny candy manufacturer...
...district. Votes (1914, 1915) against bills providing for the creation, by popular vote, of anti-saloon territory, and enforcement of prohibition within such territory. Votes (1915) to stifle in committee bills providing for a state referendum on prohibition. Votes (1907-11) to provide exceptions to the laws prohibiting sale of liquor within 200 feet of a church or school. A vote (1911) for extending the hours when liquor might be sold...