Word: businesswomen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young businesswomen who needed only 7,000 more cigar-store coupons to get the percolator for the apartment last week fell victims to the price war that has for some months been agitating the tobacco business. Last week's developments: 1) Schulte and United Cigar stores offered 15? cigarets at two packs for a quarter-but no more coupons. Cartons of ten packages, $1.20. 2) The Atlantic & Pacific and the Liggett stores (whose longstanding price cutting on cigarets is chiefly responsible for the present troubles) met the United and Schulte cut by announcing (in New York) that they would...
...Sixth Avenue, Manhattan, John Markle, anthracite tycoon, helped Commander Evangeline Booth, of the Salvation Army, with a bit of digging, then turned, spade in hand, to acknowledge the cheers of many a Salvation Army cadet. Ground had been broken for the $500,000 John & Mary Markle residence-hotel for businesswomen. Said Henry Waters Taft, second youngest of the four Taft brothers and chairman of the Salvation Army Advisory Board: "He gives twice who gives quickly . . . he gives thrice who gives meekly...
...Burnham] to do, although there is some doubt that it was best from a social standpoint." The public, shocked at the thought of the unknown-unmarried-young-man-father, debated whether Vera would some day be made unhappy by whispering schoolfellows and whether she would become actress, author, businesswomen, scientist or recluse...