Word: stores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the advertisements appeared in Drug Topics two years ago, Congressman Patman did not bother to deny publicly the company's claim. Last week he denied it with heat: "McKesson & Robbins has never paid me in connection with anti-chain store legislation or anything else." Mr. Patman said he got his money from the Brady Speakers Bureau in Manhattan...
That the archfoe of the chain stores should team up with wholesalers did not strike anyone as particularly strange. Mr. Patman's bill to tax chain stores out of existence ($50 to $1,000 per store times the number of stores in a chain, times the number of States in which the chain operates) is due to come up in the next Congress, and chain store merchants have been worried for months...
...Temple got her first Christmas presents: an English Bible and four sling shots. Her mother discussed the whole situation: "The problem is the same every year. We get packages from every place in the world. . . . We let Shirley enjoy every present she gets. When she tires of something . . . we store it in the attic. Just before Christmas, we take them to a children's hospital...
...plot revolves around the machinations of a certain Mrs. Levi, an inveterate minder of other peoples' business, who is set on marrying for his money Horace Vandergelder, a self-made old skinflint who runs a feed store in the Yonkers of the early '80's. In the end she hooks him, but not until young lovers have been kept apart, new ones brought together, and everyone found the adventure that he has been craving...
...Politico Hoover. About 125 men (mostly Spaniards) work in the ground and in two plants where quicksilver is distilled from cinnabar ore. They toil seven days a week (with pay for overtime), get around $4 a day. live in hovels, pay 20? a pack for cigarets at a company store. Recently they raised a fund for Loyalist Spain, then split over disposition of the money. One group called in C. I. O. organizers, who last week called them out on strike for union recognition. Brother Theodore and associates declined to recognize or dicker with their union, reported to Brother Herbert...