Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...income taxes on $481,637.35 made in 1929-31 from "various unlawful business enterprises and rackets," he volunteered to reporters a partial biography. He is 33, was born in Manhattan's Yorkville, quit grammar school after the sixth grade, became a printer and pressman, then a roofer, a trade he abandoned when he was 17. Here the onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy game racket and the last of the great Prohibition Era gangsters left alive or at liberty, stopped, grinned. "You fellows will have to fill in the rest for yourselves," he said...
...said, "My heart bleeds for the Newspaper Guild," he really meant that he would like to see newspaper reporters get a better deal. But as Hearst's lawyer in the Call-Bulletin case, he considered the Guild a menace, fought it to a standstill, drove it Leftward toward trade unionism (TIME. Dec. 24). Twitted for defending bankers thrice in two years he explains: "The underdog needs friends. The bankers are so friendless now, even the politicians have courage to attack them...
Last week after another five years Groceryman Sherrill again changed jobs. He was picked to head a big new trade association, the American Retail Federation, representing the "unified voice of the entire field of distribution on national legislation and economic problems...
...Sherrill accepted the ARF presidency at the urging of Louis E. Kirstein, wise, liberal head of Boston's big Filene's department store. At present each important division of the nation's $20,000,000,000 retail business has its own trade group like the potent National Retail Dry Goods Association, the National Association of Retail Druggists, the National Council of Shoe Retailers, the National Association of Music Merchants. It is not even possible to learn with any certainty the total of U. S. stores. Recalling his experience on the NRA Advisory Board, Merchant Kirstein, prime...
...peak year (1929) grossed over $106,000,000. But Liggett had his downs as well as his ups. In 1921 he sank his personal fortune in a falling market, had to be rescued by loyal associates. In 1928 United Drug merged with huge Drug, Inc. to dominate the drug trade of the world. In the crash that soon followed Liggett lost his retail chain stores. Author Merwin does not divulge the size or state of Liggett's present fortune, but he leaves the reader feeling comfortably reassured that his hero's virtue has brought not only...