Word: gimbels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...department stores (Gimbel's and Wanamaker's), who, last year, sold hundreds of thousands of "transpolar" post cards to help Amundsen finance his flight, received word from him that he had indeed taken the post cards with him to within 157 miles of the Pole, and had been able to bring many of them back with him despite the wreck of one of his planes. Fixed with special stamps, these post cards would be forwarded to their purchasers at once...
Married. Lee Adam Gimbel, a Vice President of Gimbel Bros., Inc. (famed Philadelphia; Manhattan and Milwaukee department store), to Miss Ruth Prince, New Rochelle, N.Y.; at New Rochelle. Three of the six ushers were Gimbels-Ellis, Richard. Benedict; the best man was also a Gimbel-Louis Jr. Married. Rev. Tertius Van Dyke, 38, Pastor of the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Cannon, of New Haven, church secretary; at New Haven. The ceremony was performed by the groom's father, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, famed author-diplomat, onetime U.S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg...
...novelty, but hardly a stunt, in radiocasting was turned loose upon the air by Station WIP, the Gimbel Brothers store in Philadelphia. A diver was sent down to the ocean bottom at Atlantic City. A telephone in his helmet was attached to a cable connected with the shore. Here there was an amplifier connected by telephone with the broadcasting station in Philadelphia. From the scientific standpoint there was nothing very difficult in this achievement...
Among the very few Americans to be granted special audience by the Pope while the Cardinals-designate wait for their birettas were Mr. Isaac Gimbel and Mr. Charles Gimbel, owners of great stores. They came with a letter from Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia. Marshal Foch, a devout Catholic, also came to town...
Engaged. Richard Gimbel of Philadelphia, a Vice President of Gimbel Bros, (dry goods), to Miss Julia de Fernex Millhiser, of Manhattan. His brother, Ellis A. Gimbel, Jr., who recently married Miss Virginia Newman (TIME, Dec. 10), is said to have wooed his bride-to-be, asked the question, been accepted by radio...