Word: stores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just at the corner of Nanking Road, not one block from the Wing On department store, accidentally demolished by Chinese air bombs last August, the inevitable grenade was thrown. "I saw a figure across the street throw something," John McPhee, Scottish inspector of Shanghai police, related afterward. "I watched a blur coming toward me. The object hit the ground and rolled between my feet. I pushed a Japanese civilian away and turned around just as the object exploded. A piece of shrapnel cut through my coat and hit my police card. I'm pretty lucky. I thought...
...sleep with Punch, a detective story or the encyclopedia. An exceedingly rapid reader, he has read through both the Britannica and the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. He is colorblind, cannot drive a car. Once, walking with his brother in Boston, he saw a golf club in a store window. They bought it, went home and looked up golf in the encyclopedia, then experimented in the back yard with the one club, a ball and two tomato cans...
...Rascoe further recounts that on one occasion after the Marshall Field store had withdrawn its advertising from the Hearst papers, Mr. Annenberg, then a Hearst employe, led an army of 60 drivers and newsboys which surrounded the store for an hour yelling "Marshall Field's closed!" after which the store "submitted to the oppressive tactics of the plaintiff and his co-conspirators...
Married. Ira Arthur Hirschmann. 35, vice president of Saks-Fifth Avenue (Manhattan department store); to Pianist Hortense Monath, 29. with whose aid Hirschmann launched the New Friends of Music (TIME, Nov. 15); by New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, in Miss Monath's Manhattan apartment...
...Schulte's new Manhattan "specialty shops" are really an attempt to brighten up the old 5?-to-$1 idea. To avoid burning his fingers again, David Schulte is making the transition slowly, has imported Stanley Roth, slick merchandiser, from the Golden Rule Department Store in St. Paul, Minn., made him a vice president. Said Mr. Roth: "I think most persons will be surprised at the large number of things we can get into a relatively small store." Most persons who visited the sample Schulte store at Manhattan's 86th Street & Broadway were surprised. Mr. Roth had filled...