Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their charge accounts from the Manhattan store, were promised the same service, the same fashions as in town. Opening its arms to 500,000 residents of Westchester County & Connecticut?''If half a million people should jump into motors, within 40 minutes or less they'd all be at Franklin Simon's new Greenwich store"?the company made much of a free parking space for 250 automobiles in back of the building...
...such stores as Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co.; 2) in the case of stores specializing in a few types of goods, the branches have not always been able to carry so wide a variety as the main stores, have had to resort to samples. This second handicap Franklin Simon & Co., with a large modern building on Boston Post Road, a heavy stock of women's clothes and special features including a beauty shop, solarium, children's barber shop and terrace tea room, expects to overcome...
Founder Franklin Simon, no kin to Simple Simon,* has little doubt that his Greenwich venture will succeed. He well remembers his early success in penetrating a residential district. In 1903 he opened a store at Fifth Avenue & 37th Street, next to a Presbyterian church. First year it lost $40,000, second year $28,000. Third year the net profit was $84,000. Success was chiefly due to women's clothes imported from France. Franklin Simon, son of a cigarmaker, had learned the clothing business from Stern Brothers. On buying trips abroad he had been impressed by French styles. Until...
Short, baldish, with a grizzly mustache and a fondness for bright neckties, Storekeeper Simon calls scores of his employes by their first names, likes to go to their parties. He spends much of his time in Palm Beach, where he has established a resort shop. When away from New York he leaves his business in the hands of Sons Arthur & George, vice presidents. He was in Palm Beach last week and Son George, who looks like his father except for more hair on his head-and none on his lip, had the honor of opening the Greenwich branch store...
...John Allsebrook Simon, His Majesty's Foreign Secretary (TIME, March...