Word: whiteley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Harry Selfridge's son, handsome, fun-loving H. Gordon Jr., resigned his directorships in Selfridge's and its West London white elephant, William Whiteley, Ltd. (bought in Britain's 1927 boom), but kept his managerial job in the 19 Selfridge Provincial Stores throughout England and the London suburbs. A U. S. citizen, Gordon Jr. now has an unpaid job in the Ministry of Information's Home Publicity Department. Father Selfridge, now definitely in retirement, plans after visiting Chicago to return to his London office (whose windows are covered with autographs etched in with...
...History, Mrs. Delia J. Akeley, big game huntress whose late husband chose King Albert's site in 1920; Stanley Field, President of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History; Dr. Robert M. Yerkes, Yale's ape expert; Dr. Lewis H. Weed of Johns Hopkins; James Gustavus Whiteley, Belgian Consul at Baltimore. He who would hunt apes or elephants on King Albert's 500,000 acres must have a scientific object in view...