Word: gimbels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Three Rivers, Mich., Chester Werntz ("Chet") Shafer, Grand Diapason of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, successfully sent a letter to Pumper Stanley Jones, advertising copywriter for Gimbel Brothers department store in Manhattan, addressed thus: Mr. Stanley Catmeat Jones, Rags and metal, hides and bones, You can find him in at Gimbel's Writing ads for silver thimbles, If he don't get this it's a pity Way down there in New York City...
Colleagues, including Yale's reclusive, ape-observing Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes, tried to placate Professor Kornhauser. Intruded Psychological Corp.'s Dr. Henry Charles Link, who has worked for Winchester Repeating Arms Co., U. S. Rubber Co., Lord & Taylor and Gimbel Bros.: "We first try to find out what the consumer wants and then give it to him." Concluded Professor Harold Ernest Burtt of Ohio State University: "When two brands of a certain product are equally good, I think we are justified in taking a fee for telling the sponsors of one of the two how to sell...
Tunney. Seven U. S. millionaires composed party number one, headed by Wall Street's bear speculator Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith. They included Bernard F. Gimbel, head of Manhattan's Gimbel's; Donald M. Smith, broker (no relation) ; F. S. Argnimbau; Edward J. Flynn, Democratic boss of The Bronx and backer of Franklin Roosevelt; Eddie Dowling, comedian; James Joseph Tunney, financier-sportsman...
...Good-looking Publisher Hammond, 40, was back on home soil. He had been brought up in Tennessee, got to be a bank vice president in Arkansas whence he was hired in 1922 by Lord & Taylor. Manhattan department store, as its treasurer. Five years later he became president of Gimbel Bros, store in Pittsburgh, there stumbled through a back door to the publishing business when William Randolph Hearst bought the store's radio broadcasting station for $900,000. In course of the negotiations Mr. Hearst hired Mr. Hammond...
Although no one at Gimbels would credit the idea to any individual, all admen recognized the handiwork of Kenneth Collins, high-priced publicist who quit Macy's last November, was soon hired as assistant to President Bernard Gimbel...