Word: woolworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woolworth Co. the age of retirement is reached at 60. As President Byron De Witt Miller will be 60 this month, he will retire on Jan. 1, will be succeeded by Vice President Charles Wurtz Deyo (pronounced Day-o). Mr. Miller began work for the great 5 & 10? store chain in 1896, got a job in the Poughkeepsie store when there were only nine Woolworths...
...Founder Frank Woolworth, Cousin Fred Woolworth aud Mr. Miller went to England, organized F. W. Woolworth & Co., Ltd. Mr. Miller stayed in England until 1920, opened...
...Emanuel Lehman, emigrating from Germany, started a cotton commission business in Montgomery, Ala. The Civil War ruined the cotton business; in 1867 the brothers moved to New York. They helped form the Cotton Exchange, floated bonds for traction and ferry companies, backed early issues of Sears, Roebuck and Woolworth preferred. Mayer died in 1897, Emanuel in 1912. The present partnership includes four Lehmans, five non-Lehmans. Philip Lehman, 74, son of Emanuel, is patriarch and senior partner, presides at meetings in the partners' room on the third floor of Lehman Bros, eleven-story building at No. 1 William...
...banquet at Boston's Hotel Copley-Plaza was footed by the Committee's New England members, including Speculator William ("Big Bad Bill") Danforth; Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green, Hetty Green's son; Vice President & Treasurer Charles G. Bancroft of United Shoe Machinery; J. A. Turrell, retired Woolworth executive. One day some of the members went to Leslie Buswell's home in Gloucester, Mass., then for luncheon at the nearby showplace of John Hays Hammond, who was ill abed, finally rejoining their ladies at Swampscott for a dance and clam bake...
...what the effect would be," James ( "Jimmie") Donahue, Woolworth 5?-&-10? heir, cousin of Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz. stepped onto a balcony of his Rome hotel, shouted "Viva Ethiopia " squirted a syphon of soda water at a group of young Fascists. Effect: two Government agents presently escorted Playboy Donahue to the Italian frontier...