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...Lew Hahn. chairman of Hahn Department Stores, Inc., announced last week that his contract with the company would expire Aug. 31, would not be renewed. From 1918 to 1928 as managing director of National Retail Dry Goods Association he was 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...
Strike Me Pink (words, music & production by Lew Brown & Ray Henderson) had its premiere in the null manner. Opening night tickets were printed in pink & gilt. There were pink roses for the ladies, pink carnations for the gentlemen. Even in such an atmosphere of anti-Depression bravado, one might have expected a bank moratorium audience to be unresponsive. Such was not the case. With Wartime cheeriness, first-nighters rewarded an optimistic but routine number called "It's Great to Be Alive," sung by dark little Gracie Barrie, with a storm of applause. When the tall and attractive chorus chanted...
Scion of the wealthy copper mining family which founded Douglas, Ariz. "Lew" Douglas was graduated from Amherst in 1916, studied metallurgy at M. I. T. With the gist Division he went overseas, a lieutenant of field artillery cited by General Pershing for bravery. Home and married, he took to citrus ranching, first tasted public life in the Arizona Legislature, got himself elected to Congress as his State's lone Representative in 1926. This week he rounded out his third term. A lean, wiry youngster with a quick grin and a ready tongue, Representative Douglas shot up to a commanding...
...cutting Federal expenses 25%. But he is a do-or-die budget balancer and, though himself a veteran, is committed to "purging the pension rolls," even to the extent of knocking out the $400,000,000 now paid for non-military disabilities. When it comes to Government spending, able "Lew" Douglas, with the President's backing, will issue crisp orders to the ten members of the Cabinet the theory: they will obey...
...WALLACE (Lew) Prince of India. In Two Volumes. Fine copy. New York...