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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Wright Patman (Tues. 7:30 p. m. NBC-Red) defends his chain-store tax bill...
Before the U. S. House of Representatives last week was the Patman anti-chainstore tax bill-so stringent it would kill all interstate chains. The theory of chain-store taxing was thus approaching its major test, and propaganda against it sprouted on every side under the prodding of A. & P. Pressagents Carl Byoir & Co. Most novel prod last week was an exposition of how anti-chain agitation sometimes boomerangs against the wholesalers and independent stores by resulting in increased public recognition of chain's low prices...
Augusta, Ga. has lately witnessed such agitation. During the height of the campaign, according to a survey by the Southeastern Chain Store Council, 13 Augusta chains had sales increases of 12% over the preceding weeks, while total retail trade in the district, as measured by the Federal Reserve Board, gained only...
...good things, Margaret Fishback and Bernice Fitzgibbon, coined the glib slogans for which Macy's soon became famed: "Nature in the Roar," "Babies are Hard to Bear," "It's Smart to be Thrifty." By 1929 Kenneth Collins was an executive vice president of the Manhattan store; for that job his top salary was variously reported at $70,000 to $200,000 a year...
...with Kenneth Collins went his faithful assistant. William H. Howard, whose previous occupation was teaching English at Wabash College, while Mr. Collins had taught English at Idaho University. Ex-Teachers Collins and Howard planned to start their own advertising agency, but went to Gimbel's department store instead, Mr. Collins as assistant to President Bernard F. Gimbel, Mr. Howard as assistant to Mr. Collins...