Word: gimbels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resistance to goods of German origin," Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. announced that in the past six months their German orders had declined 98%. Hence, the biggest department store in the U. S. was closing its Berlin purchasing office, moving to Prague. Few days later Bernard F. Gimbel announced: "There now being practically no demand for German merchandise Gimbel Brothers, Inc. have discontinued buying German goods." Other big Manhattan department stores which have closed their Berlin offices or otherwise stopped buying German goods include Lord & Taylor, which led off the boycott last autumn, Bloomingdale Brothers, Best...
...Warner, who became chairman of the executive committee, nor Mr. Noah, who became president, had ever run a woolen mill. But Mr. Warner, as president of McCall Corp. (publishers of McCall's Magazine), was an expert on merchandising and style promotion. Mr. Noah, as vice president of Gimbel Bros., Philadelphia, knew the department store trade. Their problem was to consolidate manufacturing units, to sell all that American Woolen produced, to guess what styles the public wanted before the public knew itself. A most modest man, Mr. Warner warned newshawks to wait two years to see if he could pull...
...wife Virginia Clemm and his mother-in-law to a "rose-covered cottage" at No. 530 N. Seventh St., Philadelphia. There he wrote The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, The Black Cat. In 1929 the cottage, ramshackle and slum-shadowed, was purchased by Department Storeman Richard Gimbel who founded a Memorial Society to preserve it. On Poet Poe's 125th birthday last week 1,500 guests of the Society heard his praise spoken by Owen D. Young, Heywood Broun, William Lyon Phelps, saw the cottage dedicated to his memory...
...Last week President Roosevelt was pleased to hear about a luncheon in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria at which President Bernard F. Gimbel of Gimbel Bros. department store announced the results of a merchandising survey of 40,000 women in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee. Eighty-three per cent of the women think the U. S. is on the way out of Depression; over 5% believe they will be better off after the Depression than in their most prosperous years, chiefly because society will benefit from the ''bitter lesson of greed." Over 92% think that society...
...John Hay Whitney's famed team of dappled grey hunters. Two Leggins, Grey Knight, Bon Diable, which took first, second and third in their class. They will meet hotter competition in Manhattan from the stables of Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel, Mrs. John V. Bouvier III and Isaac Clothier Jr. ?ho did not exhibit at Chicago...