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...each department of the store is featured the outstanding and best known lines in the clothing and haberdashery field. Included in this line are Fashion Park Clothes, Florsheim Shoes, Lee Hats, Swank Jewelry, Monito and Imported Hosiery, Alpacuna O'Coats, Jayson Shirts, Magregor Sportswear, Mark Cross Gloves, Taylor Shoes, Pioneer Suspenders, Belts and Garters, BVD Underwear, Bass Shoes and Ski Boots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL ORDERS FROM FORMER HARVARD MEN ARE RECEIVED FROM SUCH FAR DISTRICTS AS CALIFORNIA AND FLORIDA | 12/2/1936 | See Source »

...read a piquant item in the catalog in which swank American Art Association Anderson Galleries last week were describing parcels to be auctioned in Manhattan Dec. 9 & 10. Special clients who were permitted to pore through these early editions of Herr Hitler's Battle found many another rare bit of the Leader's wishful anthropology, since suppressed, revised or left out in translation. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Early Battle | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...Pennington, a $35-per-week clerk without "any assets at all," signed surety bonds totaling $40,000,000 on such properties as the swank Bellevue-Stratford and Ritz-Carlton Hotels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Philadelphia Shocker | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...Tide Water Associated Oil Co. counted proxies for a corporate simplification plan in the company's office downtown at No. 17 Battery Place, Tide Water's biggest stockholder, a man with a $20,000,000 stake in the proceedings, sat uptown in his swank Sutton Place penthouse unable to do anything about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tide Water Tangle | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...parts of the world. Bible House still belongs to the Society, will continue to be used as a storehouse for $2,000,000 worth of printing plates for Bibles in 49 languages. That the Society could move uptown and across the street from William Randolph Hearst's swank Ritz Tower might seem evidence of prosperity. Actually it is an eleemosynary institution, well-endowed by people who are interested in providing people all over the world with the Word in their native Worrora, K'Pelle, Cakchiquel, Zapotec, Mpongwe of Karamojong. The Society sells a well-bound Bible in English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bibles | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

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