Word: woolworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started a great gun-beating stampede among the U. S. wealthy. The biggest gifts reported for the four-month period were made before his message: In March John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave away 85,000 shares of Socony-Vacuum Oil valued at $1,090,000; in May Charles S. Woolworth, 20,000 shares of F. W. Woolworth valued at $1,200,000; Frederick B. Rentschler, 20,000 shares of United Aircraft valued at $270,000; Samuel Zemurray, 1,500 shares of United Fruit valued at $130,000. And whether these gifts went as tax avoidance to private heirs...
...beauty shop chain: stores selling wares "incidental to personal service" were exempted. That probably let out the dental parlor chain of "Painless Parker." Chief target remained the 1,274 stores of food chains, Safeway, Piggly Wiggly, Mac Marr, Pay'n Takit, but also hit were such chains as Woolworth, Kress, Newberry, Penney, Walgreen. The State Senate thumped the bill through 34-to-4. Then California shook as with an earthquake. Radio, billboard and newspaper advertising propaganda fought propaganda. The Hearst Press turned against the bill. All California's frantic energies were concentrated on getting Governor Frank Merriam...
...Savannah with an expansion program that will increase Union Bag's assets more than one-half is President Alexander Calder, known to his subordinates as "Sandy," though greying hair reveals his 50 years. As a Union Bag salesman, not long out of St. Lawrence University, he bagged the Woolworth 5?-&-10? stores account, which was a springboard to a vice-presidency. Boardchairman and one of Union Bag's big stockholders is old Philanthropist August Heckscher...
Last week the McHenry quartet was touring New York City. They appeared at the Bronx Zoo, the Aquarium, Palisades Amusement Park, Woolworth Tower, the Normandie, N. Y. Police Department Headquarters, McAlpin Hotel and Hearn's Department Store where small, smiling Alyce was billed as "the upside-down tummy girl...
...Sept. 30, 1925 some $600,000 worth of jewelry disappeared from the Manhattan hotel room of Mrs. Jessie Woolworth Donahue, while the daughter of the founder of the 5 & 10? store fortune was taking a bath. On Oct. 13 Noel Scaffa walked into police headquarters, laid down a brown paper parcel containing all the jewels. He had got them, he said later, from one Sam Layton in exchange for a $65,000 reward posted by the company with which Mrs. Donahue had insured her jewels. On Oct. 23 Chief Assistant District Attorney Ferdinand Pecora had Scaffa indicted for compounding...