Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flair for Backsliders. Born Henry Michael Smith, the eldest of the six children of an Irish grocer in Newark, N.J., Iggy went through Newark High School while working as a brewery bookkeeper and machine-shop man. Just when the desire to become a priest hit him he does not know, but "suddenly," says he, "it was there." He chose the Dominican Order and the name Ignatius, and after his novitiate year at St. Rose Priory in Springfield, Ky. he was sent by the order...
...Which often charged such exorbitant prices that Pennsylvania mineworkers in 1902 accused the coal operators of making profits "not only from mining coal but by mining miners." Many companies fired employees who shopped at independent stores. One of the worst company storekeepers: John D. Rockefeller Jr., whose Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. refused to give miners the right to shop where they chose until after a strike...
Died. Mary Louise, 80, Dowager Marchioness of Queensberry, daughter of a Cardiff fishmonger, who twice scandalized English society: in 1918 when she married the tenth Marquess of Queensberry and in 1920 when, after the death of her husband, she went to work in the fish shop that she inherited on St. Mary's, Street, Cardiff, Wales; in Cardiff...
Just outside, an Arab barber named Aouni leafs through an Egyptian picture magazine while he waits in his shabby shop for a late customer. From the bare-walled coffee shop comes the click of dice. An aged street vendor watches for hungry pilgrims with his roasted peanuts, and the Moslem proprietor of the souvenir shop next door offers a special on the miniature crowns of thorns made by Arab refugees. The Holy Week price: $1. At the barricaded Jaffa Gate, a pair of Arab Legion sentries stuff hands in pockets against the chill, and a radio blares a newscast...
...snow, it's the uncertainty. Hour exams are being called off; so are some classes. Yet many professors perversely refuse to declare their inability to cope. The Coop, J. Press, and the Andover Shop closed early, but yesterday Stonestreet's continues to remain open, thus making a killing on cord suit sales. Lamont suddenly closed down yesterday at five, while Widener remained open until the usual hour. All this has been extremely confusing...