Word: meier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...financial aid who receive the highest mark on a German A or B exam. Brinton, like Louis Hartz '40 and Leonard K. Nash '39 won deturs, prizes of books awarded out of the Charity of Edward Hopkins to students making Group 1 for the first time. In 1936 Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. 38 wrote a laudable sophomore essay and won a Ferguson. Walter Jackson Bate '39 won a Bowdoin in 1942 for an essay on "A Rejection of Intensity: Prosodic Development of Keats from May to September, 1819." Samuel Beer also won $300 in 1939 for his "Appetite and Reason...
...Disneyish about the goings-on - no frogs dancing the frug, no kissing coots. When a leopard set out to stalk a wildebeest in a recent episode, the victim all too surely was brought to earth. "If you are going to show the truth," said Kingdom's Producer Don Meier, "you cannot avoid the proposition that tooth-and-claw battles take place every day in the wild kingdom. We would be doing a dis service to our viewers if we glossed that over." Realism has paid off. Wild Kingdom, carried on 185 NBC stations, stands a few points ahead...
...John Kennedy's inner circle of advisers was breaking up. First to quit was Kennedy Speechwriter Theodore C. Sorensen. Last week Lyndon Johnson accepted the resignation, effective March 1, of ex-Harvard History Professor Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr., 46, who has decided "to return to scholarly work...
...financing market from 39.5% to 49%. It takes a large finance company to be able to raise capital cheaply enough to lend it out at rates competitive with those the banks can offer. As a result, many small companies have been absorbed in mergers. A.F.C.'s Meier concedes that his own Interstate Finance Corp. of Evansville, Ind., has "taken in from 25 to 50 companies by merger" since it started 42 years ago. And even though the independents' share of car financing has dropped from 29% to 17% since 1955, they are really not doing so badly...