Word: gimbel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five Gimbels who manage Gimbel Bros. Inc. (department stores) are to be thought of as a basketball team, beefy President Bernard F. Gimbel, biggest stockholder, would be captain and centre. The team's "running" forward and its nimblest basket-shooter would be Cousin Richard, 36, vice president. A Phi Beta Kappa at Yale he advertised TUTORING CLASSES DE LUXE, guaranteeing that any student who attended his five-hour lectures would pass a given course. His students paid $20 a head, lay on divans in his rooms, consumed champagne, soda pop, candies, ice cream, cigars. Richard Gimbel carried his money...
...Ayer's birthplace is now a noisy midtown block opposite Gimbel's department store. One of the first things she learned from her father, New York's second Negro doctor, and her mother, a white woman from the Isle of Wight, was to despise racial prejudice. That attitude and the New York Board of Education's steadfast insistence on racial equality kept her career from being blocked...
...weeks ago big Manhattan department stores like Gimbel's, Bloomingdale's and Wanamaker's began demonstrating a hammered metal gadget with a long handle called the "aluminum cow." While housewives gathered around the kitchenware counter, salesmen fiddled with its bolts, jiggled its handle, pumped out thick yellow whipping cream. By last week 250 housewives had paid $4.95 apiece for the machine at Gimbel's, and Bloomingdale's and Wanamaker's had sold...
...last week hurried thousands of furniture buyers from big stores and little throughout the land to attend the 21st semi-annual exhibition of the American Furniture Mart. Elderly, grey-thatched Wade McGowin, head buyer of Wanamaker's, went from Manhattan, as did tall, dark-haired Mike Joseph of Gimbel Bros. and Charles S. Shaughnessy of R. H. Macy. From Sterling & Welch in Cleveland went short, heavy-set George Killius, known as one of the keenest buyers in the trade. In the largest collection of new furniture under one roof in the world they, and some 6,000 other buyers...
...held many a sonorous title of high command: Director of Naval Intelligence, Naval Attache at the American Embassy, Commander of Destroyer Squadrons in the Battle Fleet, Director of Fleet Training, Vice Admiral in Command of Battleships, Admiral in Command of the Battle Force. The grandsons of Adam Gimbel Bavarian Jew who set up as storekeeper in Vincennes, Ind. in 1842, now control one of the largest department store chains in the U. S. Gimbel Brothers. Inc. has stores in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Milwaukee and three in Manhattan. Even in 1932 Gimbel's could afford to lose...