Word: merchants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business, adviser to every patron and friend, trustee of every church or hospital loan, executor when men died ?dedicating their souls to God and their estates to the banker! He befriended a poor foreign peddler with a pack on his back. . . . This peddler became a great and successful merchant and when he died, his will gratefully gave his large estate to this banker. When Mr. Harris was buried, nearly every man, woman and child in his county came to drop a flower on his red clay grave. Replace such a man by a city clerk awaiting every morning...
...Flood Control (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), the Cruiser Construction Bill (1929), Radio Control (1928) and Reapportionment (1929). He voted against Farm Relief (1927, 1928, 1929) and the Jones (increased Prohibition penalties) Law (1929). He votes Wet, drinks Wet. Legislative Hobbies: War veteran aid, protective labor measures, U. S. merchant marine, a high tariff for Massachusetts industries (shoes, textiles, manufactures). A bachelor, he is tall and stout. A double chin tends to get out over his tight-fitting collar. His stomach bulges over his belt. He weighs 200 Ibs. or more. Setting-up exercises every other day at a Washington health...
...Buddenbrooks. In the early 18th Century the House of Mann was great in the woolen draping trade at Nuremberg, ancient, free and most glamorous of German cities. Novelist Mann has told in his Buddenbrooks, aptly dubbed "The German Forsyte Saga," of the rise and decline of a great merchant family almost precisely like his own. His father was a Senator and twice Mayor of Lübeck, the Hanseatic Capital where Thomas was born 54 years ago, when Hanseatic troops still dipped their colors at a Mann's approach...
Suicides, long rumored, became facts, indicated some losers. Most prominent of suiciders was James J. Riordan, president of New York's County Trust Co. (TIME, Nov. 18). In Manhattan, George E. Cutler, wholesale produce merchant, jumped to death. In Philadelphia, Frank S. Palfrey and W. Paul Brown, brokers, shot themselves. In Chicago, Herman L. Felgenhauer, grain broker, took gas. A Rochester suicide was Robert M. Searle, president of Rochester Gas & Electric Co., who was supposed to have lost $1,200,000 in October. Once before he had lost $1,000,000, had gone to a sanitarium. In Scranton (Pa.), Carl...
...industrial enterprises), the Public Utilities Consolidated Corp. (subsidiary operating utilities), the Foshay Building Corp. (real estate). The value of the three companies was estimated at $20,000,000. But their liabilities last week were put at $12,500,000 and they went into the hands of a receiver (Minneapolis Merchant-Banker Joseph Chapman...