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...Gimbel Bros., with busy department stores in Manhattan, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, might well be renamed Gimbel Cousins, with last week's election of one of the founder's grandsons to command of the stores...
...Gimbel family is like an artichoke. Its stalk was Adam Gimbel who immigrated from Bavaria in 1840 and opened a store at Vincennes, Ind. He raised seven sons who huddled together in department store ownership, first at Milwaukee, later in Philadelphia, in Manhattan, and lastly Pittsburgh (TiME, Dec. 14, 1925). The sons raised their many sons, and kept them snugly in the family enterprises...
Died. Jules E. Mastbaum, 54, cinema theatre magnate, philanthropist, art collector; in Philadelphia, in the arms of his mother; of pneumonia and uremia, following operation. He was brother of Mrs. Ellis A. Gimbel and Mrs. Louis Gimbel of Manhattan (Gimbel's Department Store). Rising from messenger boy he acquired a fortune estimated as between 5,000,000 and $20,000,000; purchased by degrees the largest collection of Rodin statues known (245 pieces), of which he secured 98 in one shipment (TIME...
There was a burst of applause, the applause that always follows this speech, no matter where delivered, or by whom. This time the deliverer was Governess Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming. The occasion was the opening of a new Gimbel Brothers department store, in Philadelphia. Three generations of the Messrs. Gimbel and their wives applauded. "The store," Governess Ross said, "is a tribute to womankind." It is also, of course, a place for a woman's money...
...Governess went back to Wyoming. The nation's last glimpse of her as an official was probably to be this kindly errand for the potent tribe of Gimbel. She retires in January in favor of Frank E. Emerson, who defeated her by some 1,000 votes...