Word: woolworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before embarking on his yachting trip, England's Edward VIII had stopped in Salzburg, snapshot the land marks, heard no music. Elsa Maxwell, funster for the unimaginative rich, was there. So were Steelman Myron Taylor, Music Patron Harry Harkness Flagler, Mrs. Woolworth Donahue, Secretary of Labor Frances Perhins, Singers Ganna Walska and Feodor Chaliapin. Long before the season opened, 11,316 U. S. visitors had made hotel reservations, bought $200,000 worth of concert and opera tickets. Last week with the Salzburg season half over, hawkers were doing a thriving business in cushions for the hard Festspielhaus seats, trade...
After grace and handshakings President Gannon entered on his duties. With 7,300 students, Fordham has outgrown its grassy 75-acre campus in The Bronx, spilled over into four floors of Manhattan's Woolworth Building. Promptly the new president announced that sprawling Fordham had finished its era of expansion, would concentrate on extracurricular activities to enrich campus life, bring students and faculty closer together. Said he: "Having a big registration is nothing to boast about. We won't add a single student to the rolls during the next six years...
...When we left Grimsby, it was to fish. But Skipper Osborne had plans of his own. He was going to sell the boat in some foreign port and divide the proceeds with the crew. . . . We had no charts-only a child's atlas we'd bought at Woolworth's. . . . I was ill. In Dakar . . . they had to leave me behind. I can't say I'm sorry...
Born. To Barbara Button Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, 23, Woolworth heiress ($20,000,000); and Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, 38; their first child, a boy; in London. Weight: 7½ Ib. Name: none, until the Count & Countess "have discussed the matter more thoroughly...
...Woolworth Co, made $31,247,000 in 1935 as against $32,142,000 in 1934. Cost of opening new stores plus a decline in dollar volume accounted for reduced profits...