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...Woolworth Co. the age of retirement is reached at 60. As President Byron De Witt Miller will be 60 this month, he will retire on Jan. 1, will be succeeded by Vice President Charles Wurtz Deyo (pronounced Day-o). Mr. Miller began work for the great 5 & 10? store chain in 1896, got a job in the Poughkeepsie store when there were only nine Woolworths...
...Deyo, like all Woolworth executives, came up through the ranks of the Woolworth store managers. His first job was in 1902 as assistant to the stock man at Woolworth's London, Ontari'o, store. In 1903 he got the management of the Dunkirk, N. Y., store, moved to Kansas City in 1907 and to St. Louis in 1916. He has belonged to the Woolworth Building executive group since 1929, is currently the head buyer in a purchasing organization which spends upwards of $160,000,000 a year...
...Deyo is usually considered responsible for lifting the top Woolworth price to 20? - a move largely dictated by competition from chains which sold merchandise at prices ranging from 5? to $1. Last October Woolworth stores in Canada experimented with...
...Cameron. Alan Devitt and C. Carroll Clucas. Harry and Emma Sharrock do some clever work as "The Fair Ground Fakirs Behind the Grand Stand," while Madame Jewell's Mannikins in a "Circus Day in Toyland" are liberally applauded. The rest of the bill is made up of Ramsdell and Deyo, MeLoud and Norman, and Stephens and Hollister...
...four errors against his team at first base, while Yale committed only two errors. The Blue scored one run in the first, fifth, seventh and eighth innings; and Princeton scored twice in the third and once in the sixth. The batteries were Way and Hunter for Yale and Deyo and Kelleher for Princeton...