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...That was the year (1932) it opened its 14-story Market Street skyscraper, Philadelphia's most modern store. More conservative than Gimbel's, second only to Wanamaker's in total sales, Strawbridge & Clothier prides itself on a long list of innovations. It sent out the first typewritten bills in 1900. It dared to stop giving discounts to clergymen in 1919. It was Philadelphia's first store to install airconditioning, first to establish branches in the city's rich & regal suburbs where the Strawbridges and the Clothiers have long been socialites. It was first to adopt...
...Reno with her handsome new Danish husband sped Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow. Late that night they drove into San Francisco, put up in the bridal suite of a hotel. Next morning the Count handed newshawks typewritten slips of paper setting forth that his first name was "Court-not Curt or Kurt." He announced that he was paying off Manhattan newshawks with whom he made solemn $25 bets that he would not be married within a year. Meanwhile Barbara's father, Franklyn Laws Hutton, had followed in his private railroad car the Curleyhut. After three days of shopping...
...consecration beside the River Jordan of a new Coptic Church and Convent- Abyssinians being Coptic Christians. "The Empress is not interested in public affairs," fibbed Her Majesty's suave Grand Chamberlain. "She is interested only in her home and children." Especially confidential letters from His Majesty are typewritten by Her Majesty and together they edit an Abyssinian newspaper, once commended by the London Times for a "powerful article against gay night life...
...Roosevelt Administration. In bright color but indifferent drawing, it appeared on a 4-by-8-ft. canvas last week in the Westchester Institute of Fine Arts at Tarrytown, N. Y. Entitled Nightmare of 1934, the work was signed Jere Miah II. The anonymous artist had great fun with a typewritten explanation of his picture that referred to mythological characters known as The Chief Mogul, Sheik Morgue En Taw, Har Rywa Llace, Sir Huge Onson, and Old Egghead...
...restoration of pay cuts on July 1 another $156,000,000, and increases in materials and equipment prices still another $137,000,000?a grand total of $359,000,000. Newshawks soon learned that they were considering an increase in freight rates to offset these costs. A terse, typewritten statement made public by the Association at the close of the meeting did not confirm this in so many words, but it emphasized that the "railroads have no sources of income other than money received for services performed for the public, and they are faced with the problem of finding...