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...present they number about 800 (with 60,000 stores competing with about 300,000 independent retail stores). Hitherto chain stores have been highly individualistic, each system spreading out like strawberry vines from a parent plant. Nor have they, except for the Kroger grocery stores and the J. C. Penney dry goods stores, done much to soften public opinion excited against them by the neighborhood store keepers. Kroger's and Penney's this year have set afoot large campaigns of "institutional" advertising, praising the service of the chains and attempting to "humanize" them. Penney's, especially, is utilizing...
...Woolworth & Co. . . . . $272,747,430 7.5 J. C. Penney Co., Inc. . . . . . 151,954,620 31.3 S. S. Kresge Co. . . . . . . . . . 133,765,777 12.2 S. H. Kress & Co. . . . . . . . . 58,059,929 11.9 W. T. Grant Co. . . . . . . . . . . 43,322,451 20.5 J. J. Newberry & Co. . . . . 15,065,908 50.9 F. & W. Grand Stores...
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Bernice Ridhardson. President Mark Embury Penney of Millikin University (Decatur, Ill.) had just read newspaper accounts of Miss Lanun's suicide and was thinking how terrible it would be if such a thing should happen in his institution, when news reached him that pretty Bernice Richardson, 20, one of his freshmen, whom he had just interviewed, had been found moaning on the floor of her room. She had drunk carbolic acid; died within an hour. In their interview President Penney had had to tell her that, since she had failed in French course, she could not register...
President Penney of Millikin University: "All this is due to a lack of perspective...