Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representatives of six New England colleges gathered in Eliot House last night to organize a New England branch of the National Student League. The Harvard group will not be associated with any other society or club in the University, and all interested students are invited to become members...
...special message President Hoover called on Congress to set up a joint commission with the executive branch of the Government to devise a "complete national program of economy." His principal point was that laws now obligating the Government to fixed expenditures had to be amended or repealed to reduce Federal functions, effect savings and balance the Budget. His statement that the House had so far made "positive savings" of only $35,000.000 roiled Democrats in that body. Democratic Senators pooh-poohed the Hoover proposal as "just another commission" to postpone definite action. ¶ To Packard Motor Car Co. President Hoover...
Heavily emphasized was the assertion that the new store was not "a branch shop with samples, but a complete Fifth Avenue store." Patrons were invited to extend their charge accounts from the Manhattan store, were promised the same service, the same fashions as in town. Opening its arms to 500,000 residents of Westchester County & Connecticut?''If half a million people should jump into motors, within 40 minutes or less they'd all be at Franklin Simon's new Greenwich store"?the company made much of a free parking space for 250 automobiles in back of the building...
...cater to suburban trade, large retailers have for some time been experimenting with two kinds of small stores. Chain stores have been highly successful in selling standardized merchandise at low prices for cash. Branch stores (subsidiaries of a large central unit, as distinguished from chains of small units) hitherto have had two handicaps to overcome: 1) they have been unable to carry the huge stocks that have made successes of such stores as Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co.; 2) in the case of stores specializing in a few types of goods, the branches have not always been able...
...York he leaves his business in the hands of Sons Arthur & George, vice presidents. He was in Palm Beach last week and Son George, who looks like his father except for more hair on his head-and none on his lip, had the honor of opening the Greenwich branch store, of being welcomed by First Selectman Oscar D. Tuthill and a committee of borough officials...