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Word: vendor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hotel, owned by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and his brother Richard Beatty Mellon, dropped a hammer. It fell through a large plate-glass window in the Frick Building next door. Flying glass cut a 23-inch gash, severed a vertebra, in the back of Mary Hahn, 23, cigar vendor. Last week, after the Mellon lawyers had admitted liability, an Allegheny county jury awarded Miss Hahn $102,427 in damages. The Mellons, through counsel, protested the verdict was excessive, appealed for a new trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Record Damages | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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