Word: vendor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year's statements of U. S. businessmen, the most optimistic came from Nicholas Stephanos Vasilakos, whose peanut stand at the corner of the White House grounds was saved through the intervention of his good customer, Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (TIME, Jan. 29). Said Peanut Vendor Vasilakos: "Business very good. Bes' in long time. Almos' better than ever...
...Chicago, when Nino Rinaldo took Margot King & Sadie Stearns to the Ranch Cafe for lunch, Sadie Stearns picked an oyster from Margot King's plate to sample. When she found in it a $1,900 pearl, Discoverer Stearns, Orderer King, Payer Rinaldo, Vendor Ranch Cafe all brought suit for possession...
...purchased for 10¢ or 15¢ on the dollar, for the securities in Lincoln Life's vaults. For this mulcting process the sharpers needed a no-questions-asked bank to act as 1) a depository where loans could be made on the outflowing Lincoln securities, and 2) a reputable vendor of the inflowing "hot" bonds, so that the state insurance department would not be suspicious. With out much trouble, Baiata & friends found a bank for sale in Indianapolis. The dice-playing treasurer swept up an armful of securities from the Lincoln vaults, wrapped them up in a newspaper and hurried...
...been empty since 1908. There, holding up their slates, stood the besieged "layers." Called back to the betting ring to settle disputes between layers and players was grizzled John G. Cavanagh who had the same job 27 years ago. A onetime program salesman at New York tracks, then a vendor of bookmakers' sheets, he organized the Metropolitan Turf Association (bookmakers union) before 1900. During the interim of oral betting, '"Ringmaster" Cavanagh functioned as unofficial arbiter for a group of New York bookmakers...
...Salons of America's Poet's Dream by Columba Krebs was a woman with a raven for hair, cherries for lips, shells for ears, a lily for a hand, a swan's neck. A crucifixion scene by one Samuel Hershey included newshawks, a microphone, a vendor of hot dogs and miniature crucifixes, a few indolent policemen. Independent José de Creeft showed a picador made of stove pipes and scrap iron. Independent Lucienne Bloch, daughter of Composer Ernest Bloch (see p. 48). showed a panel of photographs of the destroyed Rivera-Rockefeller murals. A picture...