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John Wanamaker

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Noun1.John Wanamaker - United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922)John Wanamaker - United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922)


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who brought order to Russia by ordering his Russian cohorts around, said, "Once when I was in the KGB and didn't have a lot to do, I read about the American department store tycoon, John Wanamaker, who once told a clerk, 'When a customer comes in, forget about me.
John Wanamaker, a department store mogul of the early 20th century, once said: "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.
And Joseph Dixon, who labored for Rodman and his son John Wanamaker, the department-store kings with friends in the oval office and eyes for self-aggrandizement, helped change the trope from vanishing Indian (Curtis) to first and real American (Indian) as Wanamaker's store became America's store, the nation's warehouse and stage.
 
 
 
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