Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When crime looms in London there is but one thing to do?report to Scotland Yard. As any reader of the best detective fiction knows, the "C. I. D." (Criminal Investigation Department) will unravel the knottiest mystery in the shortest possible time. In fiction there is usually an amateur on...
The Japanese War Office solemnly declared last fortnight that a "state of war" existed in the empire. A general, instant mobilization of war industries was ordered. General staffs assembled, industrial leaders sat alert at their desks, all factories were ordered to produce "war materials." Martial as the mobilization sounded, it...
Prohibition. The conference was opened by N. E. A.'s President Uel Walter Lamkin. His message and plea: there should be no Federal dictation in educational matters. Thus, curtly, was dismissed the suggestion that all U. S. educators use Prohibition propaganda in their schools and text books (see p...
So, in 1870, said Captain Rowland H. Macy, onetime whaling skipper, then a storekeeper, to his daughter. Thirty-two years later the R. H. Macy & Co. store was located on the corner (34th and Broadway) which the Captain had pointed out. Last week Macy's climaxed more than 70 years...
In addition to its department store business, L. Bamberger & Co. operates Station WOR, over which it has long broadcast itself as "one of America's great stores."