Word: myer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago Lawyer Milton Cohen, no kin to the new chairman). Gary made a strong pitch to Lyndon Johnson to pick Cohen, who was already a member of the five-man commission, as the new chairman, and Cohen was not hurt by his close friendship with White House Special Counsel Myer Feldman. Johnson was also under pressure to pick a careerist to soften criticism of his recent appointment of conservative Republican Hamer Budge, a former Congressman from Idaho with little experience in the securities markets, as an SEC commissioner. To fill the vacancy created by Cohen's promotion, Johnson last...
...Macy's of Australia is a seven-story sandstone department store that sprawls over two blocks in the heart of Melbourne. The Myer Emporium is Australia's top store, the world's sixth largest, and the major link in the biggest retailing chain below the equator. More than 1,250,000 customers a week pour through its doors and onto its 54 elevators and 32 escalators, and thousands more shop at its 27 branches, which are placed in every state except Western Australia. Myer's has no equivalent of Gimbels to keep it on its toes...
Outraged Competitors. Myer's has 50-odd subsidiaries, including car parks, garages, furniture and woolen mills and shopping centers, but it has grown and prospered because of its over-the-counter rapport with the Australian shopper. Most of its 19,500 employees attend training school, learn to address customers by name when possible instead of by the formal "sir" or "madam." Myer's departments compete with each other to bring the customers bargains, and its basement frequently carries the same merchandise as upstairs at lower prices. When merchandise does not move on a strict timetable, Myer...
Died. Captain Michael Donald Groves, 27, of the Army's Honor Guard Company, who directed the mixed service detachment that stood vigil over President Kennedy's casket in the White House and at the Capitol; of a heart attack; at Fort Myer...
...caparisoned, riderless horse. A sword in its scabbard hung from the black saddle, a pair of gleaming boots were reversed in the stirrups-a sign that a commander had fallen and would never ride again. Black Jack, a 16-year-old dark chestnut gelding, is the pride of Fort Myer's stable of 27 ceremonial horses, and has performed in dozens of military funerals over the past ten years. Now the animal was skittish, prancing sideways and endlessly tugging at the arm of the Army private...