Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When called last night, Elliot Earl, the author of the letter to the editor, said he would gladly write MacLeish himself. He also confirmed his written challenge to the professor to debate on civil rights versus security with him for a worthy cause in such a place as Memorial Hall...
...Earl specifically directed his attack against MacLeish's views on the University of California teachers loyalty oath. When the state Court of Appeals invalidated the oath's use in that case, MacLeish was elated, Earl charged. Earl feels the oath is necessary for security...
...Retailing is a very simple business," says Allied Stores Corp. Chairman B. (for Benjamin) Earl Puckett. "The only problem is handling a multiplicity of details." Puckett handles details so well that he has built Allied into the biggest U.S. department store chain, with a $437 million-a-year gross. Last week, without spooning a nickel from Allied's treasury, he made it even bigger: he completed a deal to take over 84-year-old Stern Brothers* department store and give Allied its first outlet in Manhattan...
...Brain-Trusters. Shrewd-eyed Earl Puckett learned to spot a good bargain from his father, a horse trader who ran a 120-acre farm in Wayne County, Ill. Seeing no future in farming, young Earl learned to be an accountant by mail. But he put his horse sense to good use when he became comptroller of Loeser's department store in Brooklyn in 1928. He revamped Loeser's antiquated accounting system, helped keep it on an even keel when the Wall Street crash swamped many a retail store, became its $50,000-a-year president in 1931. Three...
Puckett's merchandising of unhappiness pushed Allied's profits from $25,000 when he took over to $13.7 million in 1950. Last week, as he puffed on a six-inch, 60? Havana cigar (he smokes 20 a day), 53-year-old Earl Puckett talked of a bigger aim. "When Hahn Department Stores was organized in 1928," said he, "they promised that it would become a $500 million-a-year company. We aim to make good on that promise...