Word: delicatessen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Turkish citizenship, he was born 43 years ago at Nikolaev in the Russian Ukraine. In 1917 he was studying at the Polytechnic Institute in Petrograd, became successively a civil servant under Kerensky, a painter of party posters under Lenin. Five years later, while clerking in his brother's delicatessen shop in Paris, he drifted into designing, soon grew successful in the field of elegant advertisement...
...Jewish retailers 30,000 strong closed their delicatessen, kosher butcher shops and pharmacies in Jewish sections of Metropolitan New York for 60 minutes last week. Some of them hung out signs: PEOPLE OF AMERICA, STOP HITLER NOW, AND SAVE CIVILIZATION! Bigger retail establishments like R. H. Macy & Co. made formal denials of rumors that they would fire their Aryan employes, replace them with refugee Jews...
Citizens of Prague finally began stocking their private larders against war last week, quietly and without panic made larger & larger purchases of canned meat, condensed milk, sugar, candles, in the historic old capital's famed delicatessen shops...
...kosher meat products sold in New York City are union-made-except W. & I. Blumenthal's "Ukor" brand. Among methods used by the Butchers' Union to bring pressure on the company was picketing of retailers handling Ukor products. Among the retailers picketed was an East Side delicatessen shop owned by one Isaac Goldfinger. Mr. Goldfinger's staff consisted solely of Mr. Goldfinger. and after pickets with English and Yiddish placards had cut his trade by an estimated $100 per week he hied himself to court, won an injunction. The union promptly took the case...
Most convivial U. S. winners were Willie and John Behrens, proprietors of a Brooklyn delicatessen. Although they won only $75,000 with a ticket on the horse that finished second, they spent the day dispensing free beer. Total prizes distributed in last week's Sweepstakes, which took in $14,000,000 amounted to $8.300,000. Of the $4,300,000 which came to the U. S. the Government will get some $1,500,000 in taxes...