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...Robb, 62, was elected president of City Stores Co. in a shake-up by Philadelphia Financier Albert M. Greenfield, 70, who has controlled the sixth-ranking department and specialty-store chain for 26 years. Robb, who started at twelve as a stockboy, stepped up from heading Philadelphia's Lit Bros., biggest of the chain's eleven major links, which range from New York's Franklin Simon to New Orleans' Maison Blanche. An aggressive merchandiser, Robb will try to streamline operations while Greenfield concentrates on expanding outlets. In the six months ending last July, the chain grossed...
Never pleased himself with the way things were run while he was stockboy, salesman and export man, the new president set out to please everybody he could. Result: stockholders now purr happily over dividends increased 150% over 1932's, management turns sedate somersaults at sales figures, and junior board members chomp joyfully on a special slice of the profits (three weeks' pay in 1945). The loudest cheers naturally come from employes: their work-week is stable, well paid, shorter. Union organizers have long since decided that the McCormick lily neither wants nor needs their gilding...
Small, dark Lewis Judah Ruskin was a drugstore stockboy in Chicago when his father gave him a cryptic warning: "You'll never be successful; ambitious men never are." Lewis shrugged, and set out to become the "General Motors of the drug and cosmetic industries...
That man is to be dapper, 55-year-old Frederick Dexter Corley, who began as a Field's stockboy 37 years ago, rose in the best Field's tradition to be president last year. As long as James McKinsey was chairman the presidency was an empty job. Now it is to resume its onetime importance. While President Corley last week pondered his future policies, certain hitherto unpublished details of the McKinsey management came to light...
...Chicago newshawks were barred from Mr. Cutten's door which bears the name "Chicago Perforating Co." His friends were sure that the speculator who, once a $7-a-week stockboy in Chicago's Marshall Field's, had made $1,500,000 in corn in a single month and ten years ago cornered more wheat than any man in history (about 20,000,000 bu.), would appeal his case or transfer his trading activities to Canada where he was born. But later that day Speculator Cutten declared laconically: "What's the use of trading? The market doesn...