Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mississippi* last week 9,000 disgruntled whites, led by a Negro jazz band, stormed the State Capitol at Jackson to tell Governor Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner what they thought of a 3% retail sales tax as passed by the State House. "We want Mike! We want Mike!" was the mob's raucous shout as it shuffled from the rotunda toward the Governor's office. Was he in? Some said he was-locked in. Others insisted he was at a downtown hotel. Before the crowd finally drifted out of the Capitol, it left pinned on Governor Conner...
...first of three spring talks being sponsored by the Liberal Club on the general subject: "What the Depression Reveals about Long-Range changes in Government Policy and the Organization and Control of Business." The other two speeches will probably be presented from the points of view of a retail merchant and an engineer...
...measure's backlog which the committee had imported from Canada (TIME, March 7). Anticipating popular outcry, the committee in its report argued long & hard for this new type of levy, the first ever to tax everybody in the land. The tax, it said, would not be pyramided on the retail public. Even if it were completely passed on to the consumer, which was unlikely, the $2,000-per-year man would have to pay only $15.75 more. The committee could find no other tax source which would yield money "with as little protest, as little annoyance and as little disturbance...
First Sears store .in the shopping heart of a major city, the new store was Sears's 381st retail market place. Cost of the experiment was not large. For its ancient (1891) Leiter Building the Levi Leiter Estate will get 1½% of Sears's net sales for five years, with a minimum guarantee of $75,000 above taxes after three years. The 20-year lease may be revised after five. Remodeling cost $990,000. Sears hopes soon to be doing a $15,000,000 per year business in store No. 381. Other Loop stores sell from...
...drummer, arrested for stealing merchandise and given a chance to make restitution rather than go to jail, argues as to whether he shall pay back at wholesale or retail prices...