Word: tradesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every corner of the world. A great deal of his time has been spent, incidentally, in forming a typical New England village right in Dearborn, Michigan. Here, there will be no automobiles allowed; visitors will be transported in carriages; and it will be possible to see typical New England tradesmen at work at all professions...
...tradesmen, locally patriotic, giving athletic bounties to local colleges, in one case, "out of impatience . . . with the meagre encouragement given to athletes at the local institution...
...Hoover have not passed a day without having guests at one or more meals. Some 1,400 guests ate at the White House in a little over six months, including 200 house guests and 250 week-end guests at the Virginia camp. Wholesale savings on butter, eggs, bread, tradesmen said, could have been considerable. But the U. S. Government has no cause to object. Food eaten by all except official guests is paid for out of the President's private pocket...
...arranged for wide distribution of Cameo automatic talking vending machines throughout the United Kingdom, it was really from Dora that these subhuman salesmen sprung. For Dora's decree made many a public house, cafe and tobacconist close during certain afternoon hours and also close early at night. Ingenious, tradesmen put slot machines on their doors. Thus, while legally closed, they continued to dispense candy, chewing gum, cigarets, etc. Meanwhile the slot machines, at first an emergency measure, gained so strong a hold upon the British favor that their vogue is considered certain to continue even after Dora shall have...
...service also includes these tradesmen, however, and if their bills are also paid, the bank activities would seem to consist largely of transferring credits from one account to the other, meanwhile retaining all the actual cash. Thus if Depositor Doctor Jones buys an $80 suit from Depositor Tailor Brown, and Depositor Tailor Brown owes Depositor Doctor Jones $80 for services rendered, the bank sends the doctor's check to the tailor and the tailor's check to the doctor and everyone is happy. Manhattan businessmen living in Scarsdale have chartered the bank with capital & surplus of $400.000. Active...