Seven more department stores in New York were listed yesterday among those no longer buying German goods. This brings the total number of stores refusing merchandise of the Nazis to sixteen.
The American Jewish Congress. making announcement of added strength of the boycott, named as the recent enlistments in the anti-Nazi campaign:
Saks Fifth Avenue Store.
Saks Thirty-fourth Street Store.
Gimbel Brothers.
Russek’s.
Stern Brothers.
James McCreery and Company.
Oppenheim Collins.
Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, chairman of the Boycott Committee of the American Jewish Congress, listed as earlier recruited department stores: R. H. Macy and Company: Best and Company; Bloomingdale’s; Arnold Constable; Lord and Taylor; Hearn’s Department Stores, Inc.; and L.M. Blumstein and Company. Dr. Tenenbaum said that all these concerns have ceased buying merchandise made in Germany as a result of consumer resistance to German made products.
Dr. Tenenbaum believes that with the addition of the seven department stores virtually all the leading department stores in Manhattan have joined the ranks of those refusing to do business with Nazi Germany.
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