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...Snellenburg & Co., catering to thrifty buyers of low-priced goods, has been doing a lively business on Market Street since 1889 when the Snellenburg boys moved into that famed shopping centre from South Street. Distinctly high-class was- and is-Snellenburg's firm of lawyers, Brown & Williams, a rock-ribbed partnership of dignified Philadelphia tradition which employs only male stenographers. "General" Francis Shunk Brown, a righteous oldster of 79, is the senior partner. "General" Brown is also president of the Board of City Trusts, and that institution, through its administration of the Girard Estate, acts as Snellenburg...
...enthusiasm which reminded observers of Philadelphia's election night spree and subsequent victory parade, thousands of clerks, teamsters, chauffeurs, bookkeepers and many an unorganized salesgirl, buyer, janitor and elevator operator walked out with the warehousemen. Around Gimbel's, Strawbridge & Clothier's, Lit's, N. Snellenburg's and Frank & Seder's marched mass picket lines with placards demanding more pay, better working conditions, union recognition. Read one placard: "Salesgirls on strike. Could you live on $12 a week...
Read another: "Snellenburg's gave a week off without pay at Christmas. Some present...