Word: garfinckel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing that nobody ever expected to hear at Brooks Brothers was heard last week. After 129 years in the Brooks family, the firm had been sold. The buyer: Julius Garfinckel & Co., Inc., Washington's top men's and women's specialty shop...
With characteristic reluctance to make unseemly details public, Brooks Brothers' President Winthrop Holly Brooks, fourth of the line, would discuss neither the price nor the reason for selling. (Reportedly, President Brooks has never liked the clothing business.) Garfinckel's President Clarence G. Sheffield would say only that there will be no change in traditional Brooks Brothers policies...
...Evans Hughes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But the rich and notable are by no means Brooks's only customers. In recent years, it has sold suits for as little as $43, built up annual sales volume to an estimated $5 million. There was a horrid rumor last week that Garfinckel's considered this volume too low, might install a line of women's clothing. To the loyal wearers of the No. 1 Sack Coat this was not only unmentionable, it was unthinkable...