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Word: stores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widespread police drive on illegal liquor sales this week led to the suspension of one package store's license. Police surveillance was placed on five other liquor merchants near the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drive on Illegal Sales of liquor May Dry Up Princeton by Nov. 6 | 10/30/1954 | See Source »

...word of an arresting officer is sufficient evidence to convict a liquor store owner or barkeep of violation of the law. In most cases, the student involved is not arrested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drive on Illegal Sales of liquor May Dry Up Princeton by Nov. 6 | 10/30/1954 | See Source »

When Frederick Leavitt and Wallace Peirce opened their shop at what is now 1316 Massachusetts Avenue, they left an open tin of tobacco scraps on the counter beside the stove. Up the street, where Bob Slate's Stationery Store now stands, they operated a smaller shop under similar arrangements for freshmen. The proprietors tried different mixtures until they found one undergraduates particularly enjoyed. This was packed up in cake box tins for Leavitt and Peirce customers to take home. Later it was shipped to graduates, who passed it among their friends, establishing the brand abroad. Soon Leavitt's found itself...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Cambridge Cake Box | 10/29/1954 | See Source »

...National Association for the Preservation of the White Race, organized last July, is headed by Augusta, Ga. Store Owner Jack Dempsey, a former Grand Dragon of the K.K.K. The N.A.P.W.R.'s credo: "Negro blood destroyed the civilization of Egypt, India, Phoenicia, Carthage. Greece and Rome." Now Russia wants to destroy the U.S. by prodding "us to accept 16 million Negroes as social equals . . . Every American who by word or deed helps Russia further this plan of race destruction is a traitor to kind and country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Day of the Demagogues | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...fight for control of Chicago's Montgomery Ward & Co., Florida Financier Louis E. Wolfson and friends have been buying stock in the $1 billion-a-year store chain and mail-order firm at a fast pace (TIME, Sept. 6). Last week Wolfson arrived in Chicago to set up a proxy-soliciting office right under the nose of crotchety old Board Chairman Sewell Avery, and announced that he and his associates now own more than 500,000 shares (8% of the stock outstanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Wolfson at Work | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

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