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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nationally famed is Edward Albert Filene, originator of the Bargain Basement, president of Boston's William Filene's Sons Co., prolific publicist. Not so well known is his brother, Abraham Lincoln Filene, Board Chairman and General Manager of the Filene company. Last week, however, the brothers disagreed and Brother Abraham emerged...
...several years the plaintiff [Brother Edward] has arbitrarily and unreasonably opposed . . . well chosen plans . . . approved unanimously by other directors, who repeatedly indulged the plaintiff in many ways because of his past relationship to the business and to one of the defendants." The defendants said that merger plans had been discussed, but had not been finally completed, and did not violate an agreement which Brother Edward said was made with him last July...
Aside from being a quiet, unpublicizing executive who has run a big store well, Brother Abraham's chief claim to fame is the Retail Research Association which he organized in Manhattan to effect interchange of operating ideas between big department stores. Like Brother Edward he, normally Republican, was a Smith Democrat. When Prohibition came, he sold his cellar...
...month (TIME, June 3), Banker Giannini announced that his 60th birthday (1870-1930) would mark his retirement, evident became Elisha Walker's position as Heir Apparent. Thus last week's amalgamation of Bank of America, N. A., with Chatham and Phenix National Bank and Trust Co. might well have been regarded as First Result of Blair & Co. influence in Giannini projects...
...digging in Rhodesia is Lidio Cipriani, Professor of Ethnology at the University of Florence. Important has been his discovery of flint instruments, for they tend to prove that Rhodesia was a land of the living in prehistoric as well as medieval times. Last week the Professor reported a particularly exciting discovery? two "Bushman paintings" on rock, one on top of the other. Beneath was a well-dressed Arab. Above was a Bushman ferociously warring with Bantus. It was the first example of superimposed art to be found in Rhodesia. It promised under analysis to help historians to learn what races...