Word: banker
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Dayton's has been an aggressive outfit since its establishment in 1902 by Minneapolis Banker George Draper Dayton. He lured shoppers with slickly conceived newspaper ads and free food, thought nothing of hiring an airplane to deluge the Minnesota State Fairgrounds with a million blue feathers inscribed with Dayton's name. By the time the store came under control of third-generation family members in 1950 (the elder Dayton died in 1938), it accounted for 16% of all furniture and apparel sales in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. That would have satisfied most merchants...
...urged that younger people, including some students and faculty, be made trustees (the average age is now 62). In filling a new vacancy, the board last week ignored this advice, passed over such proposed candidates as Negro Psychologist Kenneth Clark to select its usual type: Wall Street Investment Banker Harold A. Rousselot...
Miami Mortgage Banker. Alan B. Ives, president of American Title Co., has a different solution. "I talked it over with the woman in charge of our office girls, and we agreed on miniskirts if the underpants matched." Obviously, acceptable hem length depends on the length-and shape-of a woman's legs. Determining how high miniskirts should be allowed to go, says Philip Earl, consultant for Los Angeles' Merchants & Manufacturers As sociation, "is like measuring a jellyfish with a rubber ruler...
During the cheerless eight months since he had to devalue the pound, words of praise for Harold Wilson have been as scarce as sunshine at his habitual Scilly Isles vacation spot. Merchant Banker Jocelyn Hambro recently called him the worst Prime Minister since Lord North, who presided over the loss of the American colonies. The public, which voted Tory in by-elections all winter and spring, earlier this month gave Wilson the lowest rating that Gallup pollsters have recorded for any Prime Minister since they began sampling in Neville Chamberlain...
...onetime banker, Pompidou made no secret of the fact that he felt it would be dangerous to undertake any industrial reform in the wake of France's month-long economic paralysis. French businessmen and unionists counted on him to talk some reason into De Gaulle. At present, France is losing funds at such a drastic rate-$300 million to $400 million a week-that its net reserves of some $5 billion in gold and currency will be imperiled within a few months unless the huge outflow of francs is somehow checked...