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...Chicago last week the directors and principal stockholders of Spiegel, May, Stern Co. Inc., mail-order house, sat down in a buff-paneled room a mile west of Comiskey Ball Park to approve three timely measures: 1) a five-for-one split in the company's common stock, creating 1,265,000 shares out of 253,000 now outstanding; 2) an extra dividend of $2 a share on the present common; 3) a change of their corporate name to Spiegel, Inc. Each in its own way, these three acts celebrated a remarkable feat of applied business science...
Like many another U. S. business, Spiegel, May, Stern woke up in 1932 with a bad hangover. From 1929 to 1932 it lost $2,575,000. Unlike its big neighbor, Montgomery Ward, it was shackled to no failing chain stores, but it was as badly off as Ward's in its ineffective merchandising methods. Spiegel's needed brains. For $100,000 a year, Ward's acquired this necessity from U. S. Gypsum Co. in the person of Sewell Lee Avery. Spiegel's found it in the family. Modie Joseph Spiegel Jr., ten years out of Dartmouth...
...refer to Maurice L. Rothschild, directly across State St. from the new Goldblatt super-bargain palace; Henry C. Lytton's Hub, across the other boundary street, Jackson Boulevard; the old Spiegel-Cooper store (now Sears, Roebuck) down the street: the Brothers Mandel on the "world's busiest corner"; the Netcher's Boston Store; Komiss Co., ad infinitum...
...second series wil not begin until November 25 when Professor Vietor will present the first part of his second topic, "Die Krise der Europaischen Kultur im spiegel der Deutschen Literature". The part will be given on December...
What makes the volume really notable is the work of Doris Spiegel, a very fine sketcher who fits her clear, accurate illustrations admirably to the content. It is fun to glance through "Paris to the Life" again and again and study the excellent draughtsmanship and remarkable vivacity of Miss Spiegel's drawings...