Word: gimbel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought he knew what was wrong was Louis Broido, executive vice president of Manhattan's Gimbel Bros., which has sold more surplus property than any other U.S. retailer. On the basis of this, Broido told the Senate's Mead Committee: all consumer-type surpluses should be sold through big city department stores. Under his plan, surpluses would be sold in the stores, the cash going to WAA. To do the job right, the cumbersome system of priorities for veterans, local governments, educational institutions should be scrapped...
Unwieldy Law. But, as Broido knew, the priority system was put into the badly drawn Surplus Property Act by vote-conscious Congressmen, would probably stay there. Said Broido of the hodgepodge act: "You could be the smartest merchant in the world, Old Man Original Macy or Gimbel himself, and you couldn't do a very good job . . . with this legislation...
...taxes, on sales of $5,674,329. But the ball-point pen, which Reynolds bragged would write for two years without refilling -and would also write under water-had squiggled some blots on this shiny record. Sample blot: of the 100,000 Reynolds pens sold by Manhattan's Gimbel Brothers, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 12), some 6,000 were returned because they did not work properly...
...indignant mass meetings the school's Barents thought it was more than that. Cried P.T.A. President Mrs. Louis Gimbel Jr.: "Teachers College is just making a monkey of itself." But Horace Mann-Lincoln's bright, progressively educated pupils took a calmer view. Said one: 'There's nothing particularly special about...
Married. Henry Benjamin ("Hank") Greenberg, 35, sad-faced, Charley Horsy left fielder of baseball's champion Detroit Tigers; and Caral Gimbel Lasker, 30, horsy daughter of Manhattan Merchant Prince Bernard Feustman Gimbel (Gimbel Bros., Saks Fifth Avenue); he for the first time, she for the second; at Brunswick...