Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britishers who were polite enough to ask my opinion of their principal city, Kingston. I had been there only a few days and was not ready with opinions, but ventured to observe that I had been struck by the apparent concentration of business in the hands of one principal merchant. What did I mean, they wanted to know. "Why," said I, as solemnly as possible, and with the Government mail wagons in mind, "the streets seem to be simply filled with the delivery wagons of this 'George V. Rex.'" After perceptible seconds came shrill laughter, pitying glances...
Raised in Richmond, Va. where his father was a merchant, Partner Strauss was an aide-de-camp to Herbert Hoover in France and Belgium during the War. What is more he is still a stanch Hoover friend and admirer. The late Mortimer Schiff met Mr. Strauss in Paris, asked him to work for Kuhn, Loeb. He was made a partner in 1929 at the age of 33. Like many a past Kuhn, Loeb partner who was not the son of a partner, Partner Strauss married a partner's daughter-in this case Jerome Hanauer's Alice...
...Tonight," he cried, "I invited the laborer and the farmer, the small business man and the small merchant, the disorganized of every class, each to grasp the spear shaft of union, the shaft of solidarity, and with perfectly timed thrusts, with amalgamated strength, to push that spear point through the breastplate of our common ills into the very heart of the concentration of wealth...
With headquarters in Washington, Retail Lobbyist Sherrill is expected to bring unity out of the babel. "We merchants," said Merchant Kirstein with feeling, "dealing directly with more than 100,000,000 customers, would like to be consulted about national and economic problems. That will be the job of the American Retail Federation, and I believe that Mr. Sherrill will see that it is done...
...department store. At present each important division of the nation's $20,000,000,000 retail business has its own trade group like the potent National Retail Dry Goods Association, the National Association of Retail Druggists, the National Council of Shoe Retailers, the National Association of Music Merchants. It is not even possible to learn with any certainty the total of U. S. stores. Recalling his experience on the NRA Advisory Board, Merchant Kirstein, prime ARF mover, said last week: "Everybody went down to Washington and began writing codes for retailers to observe. There was no single authoritative group...