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Word: charleses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he talks about his family, Mr. Charles gets pink-and the flush is not always of pride. His father Andrew and Uncle George married two sisters, Martha and Emily Clark. Andrew and George had differences. And their doubly-related descendants have honored the family tradition. Not long after William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Bon Voyage | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Chairman Charles offers other reasons. For one thing the nature of the business was germane to boom times, not bad times. Delivering a jar of caviar to goth Street was all very well; not so a loaf of bread, a pound of coffee. And chains-with low overhead, mass purchases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Bon Voyage | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Last week, without a splurge of advertising (not in character), the store began selling out its $287,000 stock-on-hand at 20% reduction. Mr. Charles thought three weeks would clear the shelves; $7,000 worth of recently-ordered plum pudding worries him not at all. He has a customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Bon Voyage | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Such a throng of sentimental and thrifty people rushed to the sale that for the first time in 90 years Charles & Co. was forced to close its doors during store hours. The crowd was then put in line, handled like any cinema overflow. The 220 Charles employes were loyal to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Bon Voyage | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Born. To Cinemactor Boris Karloff (in Frankenstein, the Monster; in real life, Charles Edward Pratt), 51, and his wife: a daughter, their first child; in Hollywood.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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