The name of the town isn't important. It's the one that's just twenty-eight minutes from the big city. Twenty-three if you catch t...he morning express. It's on a river and it's got houses and stores and churches. And a main street. Nothing fancy like Broadway or Market, just plain Broadway. Drug, dry good, shoes. Those horrible little chain stores that breed like rabbits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The home is a woman's natural background.... From the beginning I tried to have the policy of the store reflect as nearly as it wa...s possible in the commercial world, those standards of comfort and grace which are apparent in a lovely home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have said many times, and it is literally true, that there is absolutely nothing that could keep me in business, if my job were ...simply business to me. The human problems which I deal with every day--concerning employees as well as customers--are the problems that fascinate me, that seem important to me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We'll be known as the helpful store. The friendly store, the store with a heart. The store that places public service ahead of pro...fit. And, consequently, we'll make more profits then ever before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Peter's Mother: I want to congratulate you and Macy's on this wonderful new stunt you're pulling. Imagine, sending people to other... stores. I don't get it. Well, it's, it's ... Mr. Shellhammer: It certainly is. Peter's Mother: You said it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here was a little of everything in a small compass to satisfy the wants and the ambition of the woods,... but there seemed to me, ...as usual, a preponderance of children's toys,--dogs to bark, and cats to mew, and trumpets to blow, where natives there hardly are yet. As if a child born into the Maine woods, among the pine cones and cedar berries, could not do without such a sugar-man or skipping-jack as the young Rothschild has.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »