Word: stores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dynamic personnel manager of Marseille's largest and showiest dry goods store, Les Nouvelles Galeries, bearded M. Frichet recently succeeded in persuading the owners to protect the lives of clerks and customers in their gaudy firetrap by ordering a modern sprinkler system. The gossiping Marseille plumbers and their helpers were maddeningly slow; but by last week they had put in all the pipes and sprinkler heads, promised by this week to get the system connected to the water mains...
...Walters finally won the series, three races to two. When he went to a luncheon given in his honor by the Boston Chamber of Commerce he discovered that the big silver trophy he had defended off & on for 17 years had mysteriously disappeared in transit from a Boston department store (where it had been on exhibition). Then, just as he was blasting the stiff-collared Bostonians with an explosion of Grand Banks invective, he was told that the race committee was unable (because of feeble public response) to raise the rest of the $10,000 expense money promised him. Hopping...
...started making her records in the rear of a music store at Detroit Lakes, Minn. The following year the Smithsonian became so interested in her finds that it decided to back her in a series of expeditions. She traveled alone, making her headquarters in Indian agents' offices, jails, woodsheds and even tribal bake-ovens...
Both girls had on flapping sandals which they said a "stage-door Johnny" had given them one night. The gentleman in question being in somewhat drunken condition, had allowed them to take their pick in his shoe store, they said...
Leader of these irate subscribers was Ira Hirschmann, bright-eyed, bushy-haired vice president of Manhattan's Saks-Fifth Avenue department store. Fed up with the system of wealthy patronage which controls the destinies of most U. S. symphony orchestras. Rebel Hirschmann decided to launch his own musical organization, founded the New Friends of Music Inc. Scheduling a series of concerts devoted exclusively to chamber music, music's New Friends offered no stars but gave steady subscribers a chance to hear all the important chamber music Beethoven and Brahms ever wrote...