Word: adams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When 20-year-old Adam, immigrant Bavarian peddler, opened his "Palace of Trade" in Vincennes in 1842, his policies looked mighty suspicious to the 1,700 townspeople: no haggling, one price to all. But it worked. His seven sons, banding together as the Gimbel Brothers, mushroomed the business into a chain of nine great stores, whose sales in 1941 were probably about $115,000,000, profits (before taxes...
...Isaac, Adam's second son, was the spark plug. He started the tradition that every Gimbel should start at the bottom of the retail ladder, work up. Practically every male Gimbel since has done so, though not all stuck...
Other nonretailing Gimbels: Bernard's nephews Lee Adam, who became a broker and met death in an unexplained fall from the ninth floor of the Yale Club; Louis, who resigned to enter Wall Street, is now with hops brokers S. S. Steiner & Co.; and Benedict, present boss of WIP, who married and divorced a Wampus baby star...
Harlem's 200,000-odd Negroes had their first representative in the New York City Council this week, and the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. took another step toward becoming the popular hero of U.S. Negroes...
Tall (6 ft. 4 in.), husky (210 lb.), young (33), Adam Powell is handsome, lightskinned, a fluent speaker, a good showman. He went to Colgate University, hurled the javelin on the track team, worked summers as a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. After a year in theological seminary, he stepped into a ready-made job as assistant pastor of his father's Abyssinian Baptist Church, whose 14,000 members are the largest Protestant congregation in the world...