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...then the retailers did not go home. On the next day they witnessed the distribution of prizes in a "better-selling contest" conducted by the New York Uni-versity School of Retailing. On hand to present the prizes was one of the contest's judges, Chairman Samuel Wallace Reyburn of Associated Dry Goods Corp. (not to be confused with the Texas Congressman, Sam Rayburn...
This year, Forecaster Dunn has announced that his checking of readerships against the political bias of their newspapers enabled him correctly to predict the Congressional passage of the Bonus, the passage of the Wheeler-Reyburn Public Utility Bill. A Wall Streeter until his brokerage business folded up in 1931. Forecaster Dunn got his idea of tabulating putative editorial influence two years ago. The Landon prediction is in the nature of a public try-out for a weekly prediction which Mr. Dunn wishes to market as a "commercial protection service." If Alf M. Landon is elected next month, Rogers C. Dunn...
Last week Secretary of War Dern went to Philadelphia to help celebrate the 17th anniversary of the establishment of that city's Ordnance Department, view an exhibit of armament in Reyburn Plaza opposite the City Hall. By the time the Secretary's visit was over he had been made thoroughly conscious of militant pacifism as practiced by Philadelphia Quakers. When he arrived at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel to speak at a dinner, he found young Quakers picketing the street, bearing placards such as: WAR IS ALWAYS WRONG and ARMAMENTS REPRESENT DEATH TO YOU BUT DIVIDENDS TO THE PRIVATE...
Still a Lord & Taylor director, Mr. Reyburn made a little speech at a board meeting last week. He told his fellow directors (who include three women executives of the store and Morgan Partner William Ewing) that Lord & Taylor had set aside $2,000,000 during the last decade in case the store could not renew its 21-year Fifth Avenue lease. He was happy to announce that the lease had been renewed. The fund to cover the cost of moving was no longer needed. Therefore he proposed that Lord & Taylor pay an extra special dividend...
Associated Dry Goods owns all but a fraction of Lord & Taylor stock, and Mr. Reyburn can well use the dividends his company will receive. Associated's seven other stores as a whole are not so profitable as Lord & Taylor, and Associated has $2,700.000 in preferred dividend accumulations...