Word: paxon
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...wrong side of the tracks to capture the trade of low-salaried Atlantans, snooted the carriage trade. Rich's kept its customers by reversing the slogan of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. ("No one is in debt to Macy's"), whose Davison-Paxon Co. is Rich's chief competitor. Rich's tried to make sure that as many customers as possible were in debt to it, by a liberal credit policy encouraged everyone to keep buying. Some families owed Rich's $100 or more for three generations. Rich's adjustment policy...
...Atlanta, soldiers looking for dates along Peachtree Street had no shop-window lights to guide their choice-except in front of Davison-Paxon, whose windows blazed with auto headlights powered by storage batteries...
...Georgian Plantation, the devastating abolitionist journal of Fanny Kemble, famous English actress who abandoned the stage on her U. S. tour to marry a wealthy Georgia plantation owner named Pierce Butler. No Southern writer has ever said a good word for Fanny Kemble. But last week, in Davison-Paxon's book department in Atlanta, Ga., Margaret Armstrong's Fanny Kemble, a sympathetic and excellent biography of this colorful Victorian, outsold all other titles. Elsewhere it crowded the leading non-fiction best-seller The Importance of Living, and with other serious books selling widely, contradicted the theory that summer...
...Pulitzer prize awards", continued Professor Munro, "which are given each year for the best contributions to American historical, work, have been won, almost without exceptions, by Ph.D. men. Three of the latest winners of this prize. Professors Edward Channing '78, C. H. Mcllwain and F. L. Paxon are all holders of the Ph.D. degree from Harvard...
...Junior Promenade Committee issued a statement on Tuesday in which the receipts recorded for this year totaled $8,195.80, and expenditures $6,596.28, thus leaving a surplus of $1,599.52. The first of the eleventh annual series of Silliman Lectures was given on Monday afternoon by Dr. Joseph Paxon Iddings on the subject of the "Phenomena of Volcanism." On Tuesday evening Phi Beta Kappa celebrated its one hundred and thirty-fourth anniversary with a banquet at the Taft Hotel. Twenty-eight members of the Junior class were initiated immediately before the banquet. On the same evening Professor Bliss Perry...