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...outside suggestion carne from President Frederic Arlington Williams of Cannon Mills (towels) who said his company once "seriously considered discontinuing our efforts to sell to department stores." Taking a dig at Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. and its perennial price wars with Bloomingdale's and Gimbel's, Towelman Williams declared: "No sane manufacturer likes to have his merchandise used as a football and crowd-getter. Nor does he enjoy the disorderly competition brought about by two and sometimes more stores in a town starting a feud and vowing they will not be undersold. It always seemed...
...came to union terms after a strike last spring. With an enthusiasm which reminded observers of Philadelphia's election night spree and subsequent victory parade, thousands of clerks, teamsters, chauffeurs, bookkeepers and many an unorganized salesgirl, buyer, janitor and elevator operator walked out with the warehousemen. Around Gimbel's, Strawbridge & Clothier's, Lit's, N. Snellenburg's and Frank & Seder's marched mass picket lines with placards demanding more pay, better working conditions, union recognition. Read one placard: "Salesgirls on strike. Could you live on $12 a week...
...late great Daniel H. Burnham, he collaborated in planning Chicago's 1893 Fair. In Chicago he designed or helped design the Field Museum, Union Station, Merchandise Mart ("world's largest building"), Marshall Field department store, Civic Opera and Wrigley Buildings; in Manhattan, Wanamaker's and Gimbel's stores, the Flatiron, Equitable and Chase National Bank Buildings; for Washington, the Union Station and General Post Office; California's Mount Wilson Observatory...
...Gimbel Bros, department store awarded its prize for Philadelphia's Woman of the Year to stately Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, wife of the editor of the Saturday Evening Post. During 1935 busy Mrs. Lorimer helped return grand opera to Philadelphia, sponsored charities, presided over the Republican Women of Pennsylvania, led the Republican Women of Philadelphia in a threat to plant protest potatoes on their front lawns (TIME...
...store. In the course of his duties Jack Kelly took a four-story fall off the steel framework, landed in a pile of cinders. Subsequently he became a bricklayer, made a fortune as a contractor for brick work. He raised such structures as Philadelphia's Packard Building, the new Gimbel store and, appropriately, the Penn Athletic Club...