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...years a crafty old Detroiter called Edward D. Hayes, vendor of notrums, has dodged the U. S. Post Office, the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Courts, Better Business Bureaus. Twenty years ago he slipped, was arrested and fined $5,000 and had his sucker list of 500,000 names destroyed for overshouting "Dr. Robinson's Prescription for Nervous Debility, Lack of Vigor, Failing Memory and Lame Back Brought on by Excesses, Unnatural Drains or the Follies of Youth." Publications like the Police Gazette and Baptist Record carried his advertising...
Also to be seen : a clock with a million possible settings for the alarm; an automatic chewing gum vendor in which a miniature bronco kicks out the gum; an iron mask to supplant hot towels in facial massages ; a gadget for looping up trouser-legs to resemble knickerbockers; a powder-puff for removing neck wrinkles and double chins; a mechanical backscratcher...
...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...