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...their trouble-shooter the banks drafted a bright young Arkansas banker named Samuel Wallace Reyburn.* Out of the reorganization of both the chain and the store came a rock-sound Lord & Taylor and Associated Dry Goods Corp., on whose board ever since has sat at least one Morgan partner...
...Merchant Reyburn got his start hawking on the platform of an Arkansas railroad junction. Once he sold eight boxes of strawberries to the late great John L. Sullivan. When he wanted to learn law, young Reyburn persuaded the University of Arkansas to hold its lectures at night. At 27 he took hold of a small private banking & real estate firm, expanding it into Little Rock's big Union Trust Co. Few years ago Mr. Reyburn resigned from Lord & Taylor's presidency to devote more time to his job as head of the parent company, $40,000,000 Associated...
...later Nominee Thomas went stumping to Philadelphia. There for the first time in the campaign he met his running mate, James Hudson Maurer, old-time Socialist, who says of the capitalist system: "It's a nasty stinking wreck." Socialist Thomas was refused a permit to speak in Reyburn Plaza across from City Hall where President Hoover was to make an address three days later, on the ground that it was reserved for "rest and recreation." Officials explained that the President would not need a permit because his appearance would be "a friendly visit of historical importance." Nominee Thomas without...
When Conductor Leopold Stokowski made this statement five weeks ago, most people were inclined to discount it as Stokowski-talk. But last week Stokowski made good his word. He assembled 200 jobless musicians in Reyburn Plaza opposite Philadelphia's City Hall. A sharp wind was blowing across the open square. Some of the musicians sat huddled in overcoats. But Stokowski, by the time the concert was under way, had shed even his jacket, stood conducting in his shirtsleeves...
Samuel Wallace Reyburn resigned as president of Lord & Taylor, Manhattan department store, to devote all his time to the presidency of Associated Dry Goods Corp. which controls Lord & Taylor and James McCreery & Co. in Manhattan, Hahne & Co. (Newark); J. N. Adam & Co. and The William Hengerer Co (Buffalo), Stewart & Co. (Baltimore), Stewart Dry Goods Co. (Louisville), Powers Mercantile Co. (Minneapolis...