Word: justness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropole suggested that a Ross by any other name is just no Ross at all; nor, despite Lee Tracy's expert performance, any real fun. Besides shackling The New Yorker to a leaden plot, it spoofed it with a stridency better suited to the old Police Gazette. Metropole did...
¶ In Chicago, the Santa of the merchants' State Street Council was paraded on a float into Soldier Field between the halves of a professional football game. A group of jeering teenagers began to pelt him with snowballs, hit him squarely in the face. As Santa exited, angrily shaking...
This week Cummings was back in Chicago to tell his board of directors what he had learned. As a starter, Cummings would redesign most of the stores in the country by throwing out the counter. Says he: "It just keeps customers away from what they want to buy." Goods should...
As for salesmen, Cummings thinks too many of them wander aimlessly in & out of stores, just making calls and taking orders. Cummings thought that salesmen should work harder to expand a grocer's business, and cited an example to show that it could be done. In a Jack Sprat...
¶ A Manhattan department store offered left-handed corkscrews, fountain pens, watches, shears and checkbooks, just in time for Christmas.