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...Maryland kept a lone vigil with a pair of stenographers in a suite at the Congress, ridiculously hopeful of a boon which the party leaders downstairs on the mezzanine floor had not the slightest intention of bestowing upon him. Marshall Field & Co. displayed a collection of small elephants. Loop district street lights were decorated with the party symbol on bunting. But throughout the length & breadth of the city there was not to be found a single Republican badge, button, sign or slogan urging the selection of anyone for office. Colyumnist Heywood Broun reported: "Herbert Clark Hoover is the forgotten...
Late for the opening of Flo Ziegfeld's revival of Show Boat, Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch was making for his seat when the hanger-loop on his overcoat snagged on the button of the usher's uniform. Usher and Financier struggled for a long moment in the darkness. Finally the usher ripped the button...
...Street. That the competitor would undersell them was self-evident, for the competitor was none other than Sears, Roebuck & Co., whose famed mail order catalog is indispensable in farm houses from Maine to New Mexico. But far-sighted storekeepers knew that Sears, Roebuck would bring to Chicago's Loop district many a shopper who had never bought there before, hoped thereby to gain more trade than they would lose...
...sales for five years, with a minimum guarantee of $75,000 above taxes after three years. The 20-year lease may be revised after five. Remodeling cost $990,000. Sears hopes soon to be doing a $15,000,000 per year business in store No. 381. Other Loop stores sell from $15,000,000 (The Fair) to $60,000,000 (Marshall Field...
...Square safe and efficient is the installation of these lights throughout. Massachusetts Avenue should have those signals at every corner from the Cambridge Common to the new Underpass next to M. I. T." Professor McClintook said, "We are now making a survey for the city of Chinese. ally the 'Loop District', and will probably advocate the use of this time-interval system throughout...