Word: friedlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barber's accusations were only the first of a long series condemning the Stalker faction for illicit vote solicitation. David Friedland of Tufts reported that Stalker had asked him to bring over about thirty men from Tufts to vote...
Last week the first of the 9,626 German war prisoners whose release was promised at the Russo-German Moscow conference reached a drab reception center in Friedland. Among them were two who claimed to have seen the Hitler finale with their own eyes. One was his old pilot, SS Major General Hans Baur, who was captured in Berlin. Baur said positively that Hitler and Eva Braun were dead. "Hitler said goodbye to me and then shot himself," Baur told newsmen. Baur did not see the Führer's body...
...George Friedland, 51, co-founder (with his elder brother, Board Chairman Samuel Friedland) of Food Fair Stores, seventh largest* retail food chain (1952 sales: $292.6 million), stepped down from the presidency and into the newly created post of vice chairman "for one fundamental reason: I have long felt that younger men should be given the opportunity to carry forward the aggressive policy of our company." The policy calls for construction of 35 to 40 new supermarkets by the end of 1954. His successor: Vice President and General Counsel Louis Stein (Friedland's nephew), 47, who joined Food Fair...
...this whoopla was nothing new to George and Sam Friedland, the hard-selling brothers who run Food Fair Stores. They have pyramided a single small butcher shop into a chain of 131 big stores, the seventh biggest food chain in the U.S. Moreover, they have made it unique as the only major chain which consists of nothing but supermarkets. It is so efficient that it can usually meet the prices of such giants as A & P and Safeway, yet nets more out of every sales dollar (2.30?) than any other chain in the big eight...
Board Chairman Sam Friedland, now 54, and President George, 49, have been handling food since their boyhood, when they cut meat in their father's kosher butcher shop in Bayonne, N.J. In 1921, they scraped up $1,000, and opened their own meat store in Harrisburg, Pa. In eleven years, they built a string of 25 small food shops in Pennsylvania...