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...That philosophy of delegation has seemed to work. At 34 only eight years out of graduate school, Carter became the $60,000-a-year merchandise manager of the May Co. in Los Angeles. Today he is the president and chief executive of California's 28-store Broadway-Hale retailing chain which he has built from a three-branch, $30 millon-a-year operation into the West's largest department-store group (1964 sales: a record $219 million...
...Carter's ability to delegate authority has not only made him a successful retailer but enabled him, at 54, to spread his personal enterprises into dozens of cultural and civic departments. Besides keeping watch on the important things at Broadway-Hale, Carter is involved in activities that range from the Los Angeles County Art Museum (president) to the University of California's board of regents (chairman...
Though retailing in growth-giddy Los Angeles has lately suffered from overexpansion, Broadway-Hale is busy growing at a $25 million-a-year pace...
Last winter the company bought one-third interest in Oregon's largest department-store chain, Meier & Frank and this spring battled its chief rival in Los Angeles, the May Co., to a stalemate when both firms tried to merge with Meier & Frank. Broadway-Hale will open its 29th store, an $8,000,000 building, next month in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey. It has 14 other projects in the works, including an expansion in Phoenix that will push Broadway-Hale ahead of its Arizona competitors and new stores in Reno and Las Vegas that will make the company...
...head for the action. Louisiana Congressmen were called and told that they had half an hour to get on over to the White House if they wanted to come along. In another 45 minutes, Air Force One took off with Johnson, Senators Allen Ellender and Russell Long, Representatives Hale Boggs, Otto Passman, James Morrison, Joe Waggon-ner Jr. and Edwin Willis...