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...name. He personally supervises Magnin's staff of buyers in Manhattan. A friendly, dignified little man, President Magnin lives with his wife at the Hotel Savoy-Plaza, always spends three months a year in Europe. The active San Francisco Magnin is his youngest brother, Vice President & General Manager Grover Arnold Magnin, 50, short and ruddy. He has just taken a duplex suite in the St. Francis Hotel near his matriarchal mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Matriarch Magnin | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...basis of sheer poundage the New York Sun won hands down last week, its special "Voice of Business" edition running 80 pages. So pressed for filler was the Sun that it included a book-length history, The Making of America, and several of Grover Cleveland's state papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Review of Reviewers | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...London last week for the Nemesis of Nazis, James Grover McDonald of Bronxville, N. Y. who since 1933 has been the League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany, was mailed his 3,000-word resignation in 17 numbered sections with a 20,000 word annex attached. It did not state why the High Commissioner resigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Friendly but Firm | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...Bronxville's McDonald, "is in conformity with the definition of the law given by Alfred Rosenberg . . .: 'Law is what the "Aryan" man deems to be right; legal wrong is what he rejects.' " By this arrangement of German Justice, a situation is created which soft-spoken James Grover McDonald feels ought to cause the Great Powers to deal with Germany in a manner "friendly but firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Friendly but Firm | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...Wired New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia to Grover Whalen, onetime head of Wanamaker's Manhattan store, now chairman of Schenley Distillers Corp.: ''Happy to note 10% increase in Christmas sales." Wired Grover Whalen to Mayor LaGuardia: "New York stores not enjoying sales increase. . . . Figures showed decline of 4.8%." Presumably Mayor LaGuardia's city sales tax was responsible for the decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Downtown | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

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