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...Howard--Boston's leading theatre. Official distributor to the United States navy...
...Sapiro's function was somewhat difficult to define. Most of the owners of small cinemansions are Jews and they supposed that, if they banded themselves together, Mr. Sapiro would be able to champion their interests and thwart the all too often oppressive business tactics of the great producer-distributor-exhibitor companies, as Paramount-Famous-Lasky, Fox, Loew.-Unfortunately, looking at the membership of his new cooperative, last week, Aaron Sapiro found neither guts nor loyalty. Accordingly he said: "This is a beaten organization today." He explained...
...president of the Toyo Muslin Co. (10,000 employes), of Bagnall & Hilles Co. Ltd. (distributor of General Electric Products in Japan), of the Tokyo Commercial Bank, of the Mitsubiki Company (importers of sugar, rubber, iron, steel), of a dozen lesser concerns...
...Each advertised huge mileage guarantees. Montgomery Ward's "Super Service Riverside" tire carries a guarantee of 30.000 miles. Sears Roebuck gives its "Super Allstate" an assured life of 25,000 miles, proclaims: "No other manufacturer has dared to write such a guarantee," declares itself "America's Largest Distributor of Tires." But Montgomery Ward counters with the slogan. "World's Biggest Tire Dealer." The tire war seemed localized to the two principal mail order houses. While the tire companies were piling up deficits, Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward showed largest sales on record...
...press . . . appears to have lost very much of its power as a director of public thought. ... It ought to undertake to recapture the dominant position it formerly held as a distributor of current information and a director of public opinion...