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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, board chairman of Sears Roebuck Co. guaranteed the margin accounts of all his employes. Two days later Chicago's public utility tycoon and opera promoter Samuel Insull announced that he would do the same thing. And so did Samuel W. Reyburn, president of Manhattan's department store Lord & Taylor. But the climax came when the wizened little man who lives in the fortressed home in Pocantico Hills, N. Y., said: "My son and I have for some days past been purchasing sound common stock." In memory of many a trader in Wall Street, John D. Rockefeller...
Simmons Co. The Simmons Co. (beds) purchased (price unrevealed) the B. F. Huntley Furniture Co. (two factories in Winston-Salem, N. C., lumber factory and mill in South Carolina). Expressing confidence in U. S. prosperity President Zalmon Gilbert Simmons said: ". . . we believe that everybody will have to sleep just as much in 1930 as they...
...Grand 5-to-25 Cent Stores. Sometimes too they were spent at the Isaac Silver & Brothers Stores (5-to-$1.00). If any Southerner or Midwesterner were ever in doubt as to which of the chain stores he would rather patronize, that difficulty was removed last week when the two merged. Their combined gross business last year: $31,000,000; combined number of stores: 140. There are 554 Kresge stores, 1,802 Woolworth...
...alert. Bishop Jones had just made a speech there in which he said the U. S. flag should not be displayed in schoolrooms because of ''dangerous fetish worship which promotes thoughts of war among school children." Bishop Jones further said that no man could worship at two altars, nationalist and Christian. Cried the Transcript to all patriots: "We are still old-fashioned enough to believe that the clergyman who advocates abandonment of the American flag and what it stands for has no place in American society, whatever his pretensions as a leader in his church. Neither...
...Louis Symphony began a Golden Jubilee season to milestone its 50 years of existence. As has been the situation for two years past, St. Louis has no permanent conductor; guest leaders will split the schedule. Spaniard Enrique Fernandez Arbos held the baton last week. Italian Bernardino Molinari will succeed him in January. Then follows George Szell of the Berlin Staatsoper, making his U. S. debut, and Eugene Goossens (see above...