Word: emporium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Journal; it is out after contracts with the great department stores, has agreements with Manhattan's Lord & Taylor, Newark's Bamberger, Cleveland's Higbee, Philadelphia's Wanamaker, Washington's Woodward & Lathrop, Pittsburgh's, Home, Detroit's Crowley Milner, San Francisco's Emporium, Boston's White. Paris Patterns has also enlisted Wall Street, issued 30,000 shares of common stock...
...holdings, and thus reducing the value of his? Or might they, as sensible as himself, not realize that patrons of Kresge's 5 & 10-cent stores, many of them people of small tolerances and high integrity, after hearing such a rumor of scandal, might well patronize some other emporium? Might not then the shrewd shareholders sell their holdings in view of an inevitable decline, thus further depreciating the value of his own? It was not a problem for a market operator but one for a student of human nature. The shareholder, one such, turned to the financial page...
...first hand coups de maitre of a master wit into the limelight for posterity. Mr. Keezer, who claims to be even more expert in the matter of the philosophy of clothes than Carlyle himself, was pouring over a volume of "Sartor Resartus" when approached by the scribe in his Emporium yesterday. "Lasciate ognisperanza vio chentrate," said the original Mose of second hand clothes by way of greeting, but he was soon turned in the direction of reminiscences...
...Francisco, peninsula port city, the Emporium Corp. is the largest retail concern; in Oakland, industrial city, railway terminal across San Francisco Bay, H. C. Capwell Co. is the leading department store. Last week they merged, will dominate trade among the Bay cities...
...months Clevelanders have been strolling into the back parlor of the Messrs. Korner & Wood's handsome book and art emporium, to scrutinize some little white horses and little white men which experts told them were better than anything of their kind ever before produced in the U. S. Last fortnight Clevelanders strolled in again, to see the first translations of the little horses and men from plaster into bronze. They were told that they were observing the joint debut and triumph of the country's leading cowboy sculptor. They could well believe...