Word: woolworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...torturing to death of one Otto Lenz, Jewish storekeeper in Straubing, Bavaria, seemed authentic. Far more common than actual attacks on Jews was their dismissal from government and business posts and the picketing and boycotting of their stores. Nazi picketing was not limited to Jewish shops. U. S.-owned Woolworth stores were a particular object of attack...
...branches. Bradley's gambling hall was running full blast. One gamester was reported losing $170,000 one night, recouping it with $5,000 profit the next. Only two private palaces on Ocean Boulevard failed to reopen, those of the late James P. Donahue, husband of Jessie (5 & 10?) Woolworth, and Mrs. Horace Dodge billman. The Thomas N. McCarters arrived. The Emil J. Stehlis gave a dinner for their daughter and son-in-law. Mrs. James Roosevelt arrived. Mayor John Shepard Jr. formally opened the George A. Dobyne swimming pool. Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Pulitzer gave a golf tournament. Some...
...Sidney Franklin (Frumkin), Actresses Ethel Barrymore and Louise Closser Hale, of pneumonia in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Hollywood respectively; Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrdt of influenza, in Boston; Dr. George Edgar Vincent, 68, onetime President of Rockefeller Foundation and University of Minnesota, after an appendectomy, in Greenwich, Conn.; Norman B. Woolworth, cousin of the late tycoon Winfield (5 & 10¢) Woolworth. aboard his chartered yacht Cyprus, near Charleston...
...Police Lieutenant Charles Becker for instigating the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, Halley's Comet, Ford jokes. Suffragettes Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Evangelist Billy Sunday, the two-step, grizzly bear, bunny hug. Actress Lillian Russell, erection of Manhattan's Woolworth Building. Louis Bleriot's flight across the English Channel, nude "September Morn." dawn of psychoanalysis in the U. S., Politician "Uncle Joe" Cannon...
...Montgomery Ward 10, The Globe (department store) 9, Wolf's (ladies') 8, Norman Cassiday (ladies') 6, Kresge's 6, Herman Kucharo (men's) 4, Sprankel's (men's) 4, Carley's (ladies') 4, J. C. Penney (department store) 3, Woolworth's and E. Kresge's each 2. At the news desk of the Des Moines Register and Tribune were 24 students; Des Moines Electric Co. took 2. Art and journalism students planned, wrote and illustrated Younkers' advertising copy, ran four pages of it in the Tribune. Most...