Word: gimbel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large, boycotting has been ineffective against producer goods such as German chemicals, iron pipes, tools, wire, certain kinds of industrial machines. Results show most clearly in consumer goods like gloves, furs, toys. In Manhattan, with the biggest Jewish concentration in the U. S., Macy, Saks-Fifth Avenue, Gimbel Bros., Lord & Taylor, Franklin Simon, Bloomingdale, B. Altman and many other stores have stopped carrying German-made merchandise...
...Macy's with Kenneth Collins went his faithful assistant. William H. Howard, whose previous occupation was teaching English at Wabash College, while Mr. Collins had taught English at Idaho University. Ex-Teachers Collins and Howard planned to start their own advertising agency, but went to Gimbel's department store instead, Mr. Collins as assistant to President Bernard F. Gimbel, Mr. Howard as assistant to Mr. Collins...
During the past six years, bustling Kenneth Collins has continued to get his name and picture in the papers, discussing anything from business conditions (which he usually approved) to women's fashions (which he didn't). Three years ago Mr. Howard left Gimbel's to direct advertising for Montgomery Ward, and three weeks ago Mr. Collins also left Gimbel...
...Adam Gimbel wanted to be an architect, but Gimbels have been storekeepers ever since 1842 when an earlier Gimbel started a trading post for fur trappers in Vincennes, Indiana. Adam went to Yale Architectural School for two years but he did not go into architecture. Instead, in 1915, he started to help keep the family stores. Storekeeper Horace Saks died in 1925, just after opening a store on Fifth Avenue and selling out to Gimbel Bros. Adam Gimbel's cousin Bernard made him president of Saks-Fifth Avenue. But after 17 years of storekeeping, handsome Storekeeper Adam Gimbel still...
...Valley, Idaho. Another in Greenwich, Conn., was opened last month. But no New York store has ever gone so far away from home as California, apparently because New York merchants were afraid that Californians would resent being told what to wear by New Yorkers. Mr. Gimbel intends to handle his Californians gingerly. His personnel will be trained in New York but will be 100% native, when the store opens in April. On the flat roof of the building he helped design will be an open-air beauty shop, which Mr. Gimbel feels is the genuine California touch...