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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marriage Revealed. George Huntington Hartford II, 38, A. & P.* chain store heir (and grandson of the founder); and Marjorie Sue Steele, 19, onetime nightclub cigarette girl; he for the second time; on Sept. 10; in Gardnerville...
...full of beans and plans at 62, decided that the time had come for City Stores* to grow some more. For $1,300,000 he bought from Floyd B. Odium's Atlas Corp. its 70% ownership of Manhattan's fast-growing, nine-store Franklin Simon & Co., Inc. chain of specialty shops. Like Greenfield, Odium had also gone into the department-store business during the depression. He had spent $750,000 expanding Franklin Simon, opening branches in Atlanta, Washington, Cleveland, Bridgeport, Garden City, East Orange. He lifted its gross from $10 million to $20 million, turned...
...seemed to get along just as well without money. He stayed on as chairman of his most potent company, Bankers Securities Corp., and came back fast. Through Securities Corp. he moved into control of City Stores, Loft Candy Corp., New York's Hearn Department Stores, Inc. retail chain, and a big minority interest in Walter Hoving's Hoving Corp. (Bonwit Teller, John David, Anson-Jones). Still one of the biggest U.S. real-estate operators and hotel owners, he was the prime mover in luring the 1948 Republican and Democratic conventions to Philadelphia, was grandiloquently dubbed "Mr. Philadelphia...
With Franklin Simon's gross of $20 million, Greenfield expected to boost City Stores' 1949 sales to $210 million, push hard on the heels of Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. as the sixth biggest U.S. department-store chain...
...Lowenstein & Bros., Birmingham's Loveman, Joseph & Loeb, Louisville's Kaufman-Straus, Miami's Richard Store, Philadelphia's Lit Bros., Trenton's Swern's Store, Hartford's Wise, Smith's, Boston's R. H. White, and the Oppenheim, Collins & Co. chain with branches in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Buffalo, White Plains and Garden City, N.Y., East Orange and Morristown, N.J., and Philadelphia...