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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commission agent for more & more old British grocery and drug houses. In 1928 he startled the conservative Britishers in control of Eno's Fruit Salt, whose U. S. and Canadian agent he had been for many years, by buying it (for a reported $10,000,000). Its parent company, International Proprietaries, showed $944,000 earnings in 1931. In 1930 he bought from Colgate-Palmolive-Peet their Pompeian beauty cream business. His partners in the deal were the Shoemakers of Elmira, N. Y., owners of the Frostilla line of beauty lotions, which Ritchie once sold in Canada. In 1931, again...
After 30 weeks in New York, "That's Gratitude," a light comedy with J. C. Nugent and Taylor Holmes, has come to the Wilbur. Starting off with a bedroom scene between four males, it preserves its quality of "clean fun" (as the Parent's League bulletin puts it) throughout. Whether this is to be regarded as a virtue or a final damnation depends, in this decadent age, wholly upon individual taste...
...have either broken down or are perilously close to collapse: ¶ In 20 Alabama counties 85,762 rural children have no schools to go to, 2,500 teachers no place to teach. Rural schools in 16 more counties may close any day. A few schools are kept open by parent subscriptions-$5 per half-year for grade pupils, $7.50 for high-school students. ¶ Chicago school teachers last week were threatened with a 14% cut on their still-unpaid salaries. ¶ New York City school teachers grudgingly took pay cuts averaging 6% to 7%. In the municipal budget other savings...
McCrory. Into bankruptcy last week went $34,000,000 McCrory Stores Corp., operating through subsidiaries 244 5-&-10? retail units in Pennsylvania, Ohio and the South. Only the parent company was affected by the action. Blamed: 1) decreased sales, 2) refusal of banks to grant usual seasonal credits (see below...
...that men betray she rushes off to drown herself, but Invalid Lilian makes a huge last effort and saves her, at the cost of her own life. Old Mr. Chilvester takes Emily back again. Her true Chilvester blood coming out at last, Emily stands shoulder to shoulder with her parent while he fights a hopelessly losing struggle against the combined forces of society. His efforts sap the old man; merciful death comes for him before he realizes that the Chilvester House will, after all, have to be equipped with drains...