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...Were the rule otherwise, every cotton and commodity broker or dealer in the land would be in jail before nightfall. Does anyone suppose that the delicatessen dealer who buys an option on 500 bales of cotton ever intends to take delivery of it or that the salesgirl who acquires a future in 1,000 bushels of wheat will ultimately bake bread or make pancakes with the resultant flour?* Let the vendor of an option establish that he is pure in heart and the law takes no account of the base motives of those who may deal with...
...Chicago to form the Grain Analysts' Club, one of their number was a woman: comely, redhaired, blue-eyed Eileen Henington Miller. Selfconscious, Mrs. Miller offered to withdraw, but her male colleagues would not let her. One of the country's most brilliant crop forecasters, she has worked as a salesgirl in a department store and a stenographer in a Memphis cotton house where she began writing crop reports in 1919. As estimator for James E. Bennett & Co., Mrs. Miller does not rely solely on the reports of her 5,000 agents but travels personally through the grain and cotton belts...
...office car was a sign: For Merchants Only. The general public was not admitted. No goods were actually for sale; they were simply samples from which local merchants might order. Stressed were exclusive Field items like special fabric prints, Czechoslovakian cut glassware. And the 24 salesmen and one salesgirl (who modeled on demand) were as busy selling Marshall Field's name as Marshall Field's goods...
...floorwalkers spotted the theft, pounced on Rivera. Someone threatened to "take him down in the basement and beat the hell out of him." Lino began frantically biting his captors' hands. A salesgirl fainted. Some 500 Negro customers, thrown into a panic by the commotion, began upsetting counters of goods, yelling, breaking things. An Irish policeman went in, saw he could not quell the hysterical confusion singlehanded, sent for emergency reserves. It was almost twilight before the police had driven the disturbers from the debris-strewn store...
Almost certain were Federal agents that Nelson's woman companion had been his 21-year-old wife Helen. A one-time Chicago salesgirl, she has borne him a son aged 5, a daughter aged 4. Last week as a "no quarter" hunt was supposed to be closing in on Helen Nelson, her terror-stricken father appealed to her through the Press: "Give up rather than face Government bullets." But Federal Agents announced that they had already captured her the day after her husband's death...