Word: woolworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like the U. S. but want more pay-Babs with our money runs away. Such was the legend striking employes of three F. W. Woolworth stores in New York carried on picket placards day after 25-year-old Countess Haugwitz-Revent-low (Barbara Hutton) spent five minutes in a courtroom on the fifth floor of Manhattan's Federal Courthouse, signed away her U. S. citizenship, became solely a Danish subject like her husband, sailed back to England on the Europa after 36 hours in the U. S. Through her attorneys the granddaughter of the 5?-&-10? chain...
...diamond brooch, from which hung a sixpenny police whistle. She had more lawsuits than she could count and called her house Writs Hotel. Half-blind, bedridden, living in pigsty disorder, she stayed up half the night filling gaily bound notebooks with illegible maxims intended to be sold at Woolworth's. A typical letter of her last days reels off to her daughter a fearful jeremiad of grievances, dark suspicions, comments on the latest trunk murder, cries out: "Oh! how I admire that man Hitler!" She was, said Kipling, "the most wonderful person I have ever met. ... It is outside...
Last week the remaining two Babes in the Woods, Allan Price Kirby, son of one of the founders of F. W. Woolworth Co., and Robert Young, onetime partner of Frank Kolbe in Young, Kolbe & Co., were reticent about Mr. Kolbe's departure. All they would say was that part of Mr. Kolbe's share in the syndicate had been bought by Mrs. Young, who is the sister of Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, the remainder by a lawyer "for the personal holding com-pany of an undisclosed individual." While Wall Street ears tingled to talk that this unknown...
...last week, labor in education also made news: ¶ In Manhattan the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, newly formed to promote the Catholic point of view in C. I. O. and A. F. of L. unions, quietly opened a free experimental school for workers in Fordham University's Woolworth Building quarters. To the press rushed Rev. Ignatius Wiley Cox, Fordham professor of ethics and loud foe of birth control and the press, to announce that Fordham was starting "the first attempt to interpret workers' problems by other than Marxian theories." Text for the courses, in which 100 unionists...
...books. If a popular magazine is worth five cents, a novel's reading matter must be markedly superior to justify paying 50 times as much for it. In England the sensationally successful Penguin Books, started two years ago with a capital of $500 and a small order from Woolworth's, selling paper-covered books for sixpence, has sold nearly 10,000,000 books. In the U. S. attempts to sell new books for less than $1 have come to grief in the past, and the newest and biggest cheap book venture, Modern Age Books, offering well-printed, well...