Word: merchants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great moist smacking kisses are as Russian as vodka or borscht. A kiss is the festive greeting of peasant to peasant, irrespective of sex. And no Moscow merchant or lawyer would think of wishing his partner "Merry Christmas" without a buss on both cheeks. Soviet Commissar for Post and Telegraph Nicolai Antipov has lately been brooding darkly, intellectually on Russian kisses...
...Ledbetter Lee "is Mr. Rockefeller's publicity agent and Mr. Schwab's publicity agent and, I believe, the British Government's publicity agent," said Shearer. "They paid him $150,000 to keep the navy and merchant marine situation before the public, but they got very little or nothing out of it. I was the only man that ever gave them service...
Those were some of the sums appropriated by Congress for the use of the Merchant Fleet Corp., a quasi-public body instituted in Wartime to build ships to carry soldiers, food and munitions overseas. When the War ceased, the corporation had to pay its bills, to settle with shipbuilders for cancelled contracts. Then its job was to operate the ships it had built until they could be disposed of to private interests...
Because of the status of the Merchant Fleet Corp. as a body responsible primarily to the U. S. Shipping Board whose officers were its managers, Congress never until last week received an audit of the corporation's books. When that audit came, from Comptroller-General John Raymond McCarl, great was the shock to watchdogs of the public treasury...
Gustav Stresemann was born in Berlin in 1878, the son of a beer merchant. Father Stresemann had higher plans for young Gustav than the beer business. Scrimped pfennigs sent him to Berlin and Leipzig universities, found him. a good job in an association of chocolate manufacturers, paved the path that brought Gustav Stresemann to the Reichstag...