Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aaron Jerome Himelhoch...
This was momentous because what the Balls are to Muncie, Ind., the Meier and Frank families are to Portland. The first Meier was named Aaron, a German-Jewish immigrant who followed homesteaders to the Northwest, set up a store for prospectors in the clearing called Portland where the Willamette River runs into the mighty Columbia. The first Frank, Sigmund, joined Meier in partnership and married his daughter. By 1883, when the Northern Pacific came through, they were prosperous. After that, as Portland's deep draft harbor thrived and the cool city grew around it, the Meiers and Franks became...
...Last week they learned from Meier & Frank's statement to SEC that the store itself had advanced no less than $800,000 to enable the bank to reopen. Julius Meier, now 62, inactive and unwell since he left office, was displaced as president last January by his nephew, Aaron Meier Frank...
...politician but a shrewd and imposing merchant is 46-year-old Aaron Frank. Oregon's richest sportsman, he is chairman for the Pacific Northwest of the Amateur Athletic Union's executive committee, is said to plan a great athletic pavilion as his monument in Portland. Mainspring in the Meier & Frank business since Uncle Julius moved to the State House in 1930, Aaron Frank has watched his store's sales shrink from $18,510,061 in the fiscal year of 1928 to $11,276,077 in 1934 and swell again to $16,555,952 in 1936. When Aaron...
...AARON BURR: THE PROUD PRETENDER- Holmes Alexander-Harper ($3.50). Brilliantly written life of the onetime (1800-04) U. S. Vice President who sought to be Aaron I in a kingdom carved by knavery...