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...list of men elected follows: Cesar Lombardi Barber, of Bethseda, Maryland; Robert Olmstead Carleton, of Brooklyn, New York; Charles Edwin Carr, of Malden; Charles Richards Cherington, of New York; Aaron Arthur Cohen, of Long Brach, New Jersey; Harold Simson Cone, of Greensboro, North Carolina; William Frederick Ebling, of Osterville; Maurice Franks, of Lawrence; Charles Friedman Haas, of Chicago; Robert Peace Heller, of Brooklyn, New York; John Joseph Hession, of Dorchester; Thomas Harrison Hunter, of Cambridge; Reed Edwin Peggram, of Dorchester; Leo Rosenfield, of Chelsea; Richard Samuel Salant, of New York; and Robert Daniel Sard, of New York...
...Greensboro, N. C. Robinson R. Stabler, glowing with international goodwill, proposed that New York Harbor's Goddess of Liberty be equipped with loudspeaker and polylingual set of records, thunder appropriate greetings and farewells at passing ships...
...consulting expert for stores all over the country on how retailing could be done profitably. In the merger era of 1928 he came to the conclusion that department stores like everything else could be profitably run in chains. So 22 stores straddling the U. S. from Seattle to Greensboro. N. C.-largest of them Jordan Marsh of Boston-were merged in Hahn Department Stores, Inc. Lehman Brothers and Prince & Whitely floated the stock. Lew Hahn became president. Like many a boom-launched ship, it ran into rough water. The stores' pre-Depression earnings of $6,000,000 a year...
Officiating at the opening of a Federal building in Greensboro, N. C., he declared: "I am for Repeal, the President is for Repeal, and the national party platform is for Repeal. After Repeal, the right of North Carolina to determine its own methods of dealing with the liquor traffic will be firmly established, and the Federal Government will cooperate with...
...Henry Platt Bristol as president, Second Son Lee Bristol as vice president in charge of advertising (known to all advertising men as a past president of the Association of National Advertisers), and Third Son William M. Bristol Jr. as secretary. ¶Dr. Porter's Drug Store in Greensboro, N. C. gave the world two famous things. Behind its prescription counter labored a druggist named Lunsford Richardson, William Sidney Porter (nephew of Dr. Porter ) was one of his clerks. Clerk Porter soon went forth into the world and produced short-stories under the nom de plume O. Henry. The late...