Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. and A. F. of L. last week gave a practical demonstration of trade-union trading. A. & P. signed A. F. of L. contracts covering its Washington and Chicago stores, prepared to follow suit elsewhere. A. F. of L.'s part of the bargain: to oppose Representative Wright Patman's pending bill to tax big A. & P. and many a lesser store chain out of existence...
...admittedly designed to tax interstate chains out of existence. Proposed at the last session but not voted on, the Patman bill would tax stores on a graduated scale to a maximum of $1,000 times the number of stores times the number of States. For the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s 11,752 stores this tax would be $458,328,000, more than half A. & P.'s 1937 gross sales. Melville Shoe Corp.'s 674 stores would have to pay $18,580,000. Woolworth's 1,859 stores $91,091,000. J. C. Penney...
...dozen members of the cast of the Ballet Russe came to Harvard Thursday afternoon to a tea given in their honor in the Lowell House Common Room by the Slavic Circle...
Speaking Russian, French, and broken English, with an occasional mixture of all three, the Ballerinas partook of tea and cakes and discussed their art with students and faculty of the Slavic department...
Fifteen members of the cast of the Ballet Russe will be guests of the Slavic Circle at a tea to be given this afternoon in the Lowell House Common Room. Only members of the Club and their guests will be admitted...