When does commercialism without limits damage the national soul?
Police are investigating how shredded documents revealing confidential information, including details about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s motorcade, wound up as confetti on a Manhattan sidewalk during the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
FORWARD EDITORIAL: C’mon Macy’s, show respect for your employees. Show us the plaque they bought to honor Isidor and Ida Straus after they died on the Titanic.
It was a simple yet generous gesture. About 5,000 employees of Macy’s department store contributed what little they could afford to create a memorial plaque for their boss, Isidor Straus, and his wife, Ida, who died in the Titanic disaster.