Word: woolworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Left. By Alexis Zacharie Mdivani, late Georgian husband of Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow; an estate valued at $2,985,908. In 1934 the Woolworth Countess established two trust funds for him totaling $2,251,189, few months later gave him securities worth $625,193. He was killed in 1935 in a motorcar accident in Spain. Under his will his two sisters and surviving brother (Brother Serge was killed in 1936 playing polo near Palm Beach) receive four-fifths, the Countess one-fifth...
...stock along with some real estate to a trio of virtual unknowns for $6,375,000 ($4,000,000 in cash, rest in notes). This trio consisted of two Wall Streeters. Robert Ralph Young and Frank Frederick Kolbe, and Allan Price Kirby, son of one of the F. W. Woolworth Co. founders. Admitting that they were "babes in the woods," the new bosses of the Van Sweringen empire set put to simplify Allegheny's elaborate holding company substructure, have been lost in the woods ever since. Last fall's market crash forced Mr. Kolbe to liquidate his Alleghany...
Died. Helena Woolworth McCann, wife of Manhattan Lawyer Charles E. F. McCann and eldest daughter of the late 5?-&-10? store magnate, Frank Winfield Woolworth; after short illness; in Manhattan. A director of F. W. Woolworth Co., she helped support the Metropolitan Opera Company, the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, three years ago gave to her three children more than...
...offered as "a new approach." Its author, shrewd, 51-year-old Harry Scherman, is president and owner of the Book-of-the-Month Club, onetime successful adman and originator of the Little Leather Library, which in two years (1923-25) sold 40,000,000 copies through such outlets as Woolworth's and the Whitman Candy...
Still too early to estimate are the results of the boycott of Japan's manufactured products. Last week S. H. Kress & Co., the McCrory Stores, the Woolworth chain, S. S. Kresge Co., H. L. Green Co. announced they would place no new orders for Japanese goods. U. S. imports of Japanese foodstuffs, housewares, toys, cotton goods and other manufactured products valued in 1936 at some $76,700,000- substitutes for which are procurable in domestic and other foreign markets-may be affected if this movement grows...