Word: kress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proudly last week Samuel Henry Kress watched his name in mighty granite letters emerging on the Fifth Avenue facade of his newest 5-10-25? store, which is rapidly nearing completion on the Manhattan site of the famed old Wendel house...
Even prouder was Merchant Kress last week to know that his name was on the tongue of the entire art world. One purchase of $250,000 had lifted his little known collection of Italian paintings to front-rank eminence. For that sum Mr. Kress had just bought from Clarence Hungerford Mackay one of the four paintings by Duccio di Buoninsegna in the U. S. Art dealers throughout the country agreed that the 5-10-25? storeman had got a bargain...
...June 9, 1311. Most of the altarpiece and all the contracts connected with it are still preserved in Siena. Missing are several of the 24 gilded wooden panels that once covered the back. It was one of these, entitled Calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew, that Mr. Kress bought last week, a 17-inch square, showing the figure of Christ on a rocky shore calling Peter and Andrew from their fish nets. All summer it has been on view in the great international show of Italian art in Paris (TIME...
...Hints that the masseur's name began with K. brought a rash of "Mr. K." headlines. A cable from Berlin, based on reports by Germany's Consul in Manhattan, revealed him as Herr Paul Kress who has taken out his first and applied for his second U. S. naturalization papers...
...shop chain: stores selling wares "incidental to personal service" were exempted. That probably let out the dental parlor chain of "Painless Parker." Chief target remained the 1,274 stores of food chains, Safeway, Piggly Wiggly, Mac Marr, Pay'n Takit, but also hit were such chains as Woolworth, Kress, Newberry, Penney, Walgreen. The State Senate thumped the bill through 34-to-4. Then California shook as with an earthquake. Radio, billboard and newspaper advertising propaganda fought propaganda. The Hearst Press turned against the bill. All California's frantic energies were concentrated on getting Governor Frank Merriam to sign...