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...Hotly debated Manchuria and Shanghai, Labor Party Leader George Lansbury contending that "China must receive reparations for Japan's ghastly blunder'' while British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon warily supported the Japanese thesis that Manchuria spontaneously revolted against China and set itself up as a separate state...
...take their wares to the suburbs for sale. New York and Chicago particularly have become surrounded by rich buying areas far from Fifth Avenue and State Street. Last week Fifth Avenue lost more trade. Opened with much civic and social pomp was a large new store of Franklin Simon & Co. in Greenwich, Conn. Not the first nor the second New York store to open a branch outside the Metropolitan area (B. Altman & Co. has branches in White Plains, N. Y. and East Orange, N. J.; Best & Co. in East Orange, Garden City and Mamaroneck, N. Y.), Franklin Simon was most...
...their charge accounts from the Manhattan store, were promised the same service, the same fashions as in town. Opening its arms to 500,000 residents of Westchester County & Connecticut?''If half a million people should jump into motors, within 40 minutes or less they'd all be at Franklin Simon's new Greenwich store"?the company made much of a free parking space for 250 automobiles in back of the building...
...such stores as Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co.; 2) in the case of stores specializing in a few types of goods, the branches have not always been able to carry so wide a variety as the main stores, have had to resort to samples. This second handicap Franklin Simon & Co., with a large modern building on Boston Post Road, a heavy stock of women's clothes and special features including a beauty shop, solarium, children's barber shop and terrace tea room, expects to overcome...
Founder Franklin Simon, no kin to Simple Simon,* has little doubt that his Greenwich venture will succeed. He well remembers his early success in penetrating a residential district. In 1903 he opened a store at Fifth Avenue & 37th Street, next to a Presbyterian church. First year it lost $40,000, second year $28,000. Third year the net profit was $84,000. Success was chiefly due to women's clothes imported from France. Franklin Simon, son of a cigarmaker, had learned the clothing business from Stern Brothers. On buying trips abroad he had been impressed by French styles. Until...