Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even before the partnership blanks were distributed many a potent company had wired the President support of his program. Among the first were American Tobacco, Sears. Roebuck, Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea, Florsheim Shoe. But it was the small independent employer not in the habit of telegraphing the White House who would make or break the campaign. Some doubtless would sign agreements and then secretly violate them. For such cheating some N. R. A. advisers thought they could be penalized under the National Recovery Act. Declared General Johnson: "We'll administer this thing through the squawks. When I hear...
...Ford, the Czechoslovak family of Bat'a (pro- nounced Bahtya) continue to be the world's most vigorous "Fordizers." Fifty-seven years ago the spouse of a poor cobbler in Zlin bore Thomas Bat'a. In a heroic life of mechanized striving he made Zlin the "Shoe Capital" of Europe. Because, like Henry Ford, he profoundly mistrusted financiers, Thomas Bat'a took fanatical care to remain the First Working Partner in a partnership which embraced all his employes. No one outside the partnership may own Bat'a stock. In Zlin the Bat'a newspaper...
This year the first Bat'a-owned shoe store was opened in Shanghai with a challenge: "We propose to establish the first up-to-date chain store system ever attempted in China." Open or opening shortly are two Bat'a stores in Nanking, two in Foochow, two in Ningpo, one each in Chefoo. Soochow and Weihaiwei. Last week strapping, cleft-chinned Jan Bat'a could point to 50 chain stores operating in Java, 15 in the Straits Settlements, three in Saigon. Deliberately, according to U. S. consular reports, these stores are going after "not the trade...
...farmhouse near Fort Scott, Kansas, 48 years ago was born George Frederick Zook, son of Douglas and Helen Follenius Zook. In 1902 George Zook entered the University of Kansas, carrying his spare clothing in a shoe box. He worked his way through by driving a hearse. He made Phi Kappa Phi. Five years after graduating he married a classmate, Susie Gant. Specializing in modern European history, George Zook became a fellow at Kansas, an assistant at Cornell, an instructor at Pennsylvania State College, then an assistant professor, then an associate professor, then a full professor. From...
Much Congressional shoe leather was worn out over the White House doorstep last week before President Roosevelt and the House could compose their differences over reduction of pensions for disabled veterans. Day after day Democratic Representatives traipsed down from the Capitol, spent long hot hours dickering and bickering with the President. What they and their colleagues wanted, what the President flatly refused to let them have, was a Senate amendment to the Independent Offices Appropriation bill which would have limited the President's cutting power to 25% of the old payments and kept on the pension rolls not only...