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...Guild, with its 250 dress manufacturers and affiliates in the textile and coat & suit trades, has been developing for months. It came to a head recently in a series of incidents which retailers considered a highhanded abuse of the Guild's position. One day last month at Strawbridge & Clothier's, swank Philadelphia department store, a Guild investigator became quietly uppish. She demanded that a certain dress, in her opinion a copy, be removed from the floor and that she be told the name of the manufacturer. Its managers knew they had an agreement with the Guild, but they...
...upper price ranges were required not to sell any copies at all and to give the Guild's 40 professional shoppers authority to determine what was and what was not a copy. Department store managers either shook their heads or got hopping mad. Following the Strawbridge & Clothier incident war was openly declared...
...tournament was distinguished by the performance of the Davis Cup's donor, 56-year-old Dwight Davis who, with 27-year-old Dwight Davis Jr., beat R. N. Watt & Son of Montreal, holders of the title for the last two years, in the second round. William J. Clothier, U. S. singles champion in 1906, and William J. Clothier Jr., a Harvard sophomore, were the new titleholders. Those veterans among veterans, Frederick C. ("Pop") Baggs and Dr. William Rosenbaum, were finally ousted as champions by a pair of oldsters from Boston named Raymond B. Bidwell and Richard Bishop. Mixed doubles...
STANLEY KING ASKS ACADEMIC LIBERTY Rutgers' Clothier...
Last week's discount plan was not solely the idea of President Tily. It had been worked over and approved by the Clothiers and the Strawbridges who, as sons of the founders, own most of the stock, carry on family traditions. Morris Lewis Clothier is chairman of the board, a benefactor of the Quaker colleges Swarthmore and Haverford. His brother, Isaac H. Clothier, vice president, is famed as a sportsman and horse fancier. (Their cousin, Robert C. Clothier, who did not go into the store, is president of Rutgers University.) Of the three living sons of Founder Strawbridge only...