Word: storing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organizing a business democracy, giving his employes representation on the board of directors. He was disappointed when he found they used their power chiefly to ask for minor privileges, did not seem interested in assuming control of the business. Thereafter Merchant Filene gradually resigned the management of his store to others, in order to devote himself to the public propagation of his ideals. Among these were: the 20th Century Fund which he founded in 1919 for economic research; the International Chamber of Commerce; the U. S. Chamber of Commerce (from which he completely withdrew in 1936 when he thought...
...relief, to Mormon leaders a distasteful institution (TIME, June 8, 1936). Since then, jobs have been found for some 23,000 Mormons, the Church has taken over the support of 30,000. Most of the idle were given agricultural work and 24 big regional warehouses have been built to store produce which is the result of redoubled Mormon husbandry. In and around Salt Lake City, 125,000 Mormons were urged last fortnight to observe a special fast, abstaining from two meals and donating the money toward construction of more warehouses for current bumper crops...
...Boston Chamber of Commerce since 1923 has been a ruddy, white-crested lawyer of 47 named Daniel Bloomfield. A relative by marriage of both the Morgenthau and Filene families, Dan Bloomfield began his career as Lincoln Filene's associate in Boston's big Filene department store. In 1928 he conceived an idea which seemed unlikely to set the world afire: a Conference on Distribution to parallel the conference on national and international problems held annually by the Institute of Human Relations at Williamstown, Mass. But under two enthusiasts, Dan Bloomfield and President Patrick Augustin O'Connell...
Tommy Dorsey and Edythe Wright, songstress of his orchestra, will appear in person in Cambridge this afternoon. Briggs & Briggs, 1272 Massachusetts Avenue, report that the pair are visiting their store between 2:20 and 2:35 o'clock to autograph any records brought or bought...
Dorsey and his band are currently playing at the Met after 24 weeks at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York. He will also appear personally at McKenna's Radio Store on Brattle Street...