Word: bolton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia last week, one John B. Bolton, superintendent at John Bromley & Sons, Inc. (laces, carpets) ate his breakfast with a leisureliness that masked a new gusto while Mrs. Bolton methodically sorted soiled clothes for the electric washing machine. Both tried to act as they had regularly done all the years of their marriage. But their red-headed daughter, Eliza May, for three months bedridden with a nervous breakdown, was openly joyful. Now she could go traveling for her health, for Father had just become a millionaire...
...John B. Bolton, expert in fabrics, invented the cloth out of which semisoft collars are made. Then there was John M. Van Heusen, who vainly tried to sell the material to collar manufacturers until one day he talked to Isaac ("Iky") Phillips, a shirt manufacturer. Mr. Phillips arranged to give Mr. Van Heusen a royalty and had his Phillips, Jones Co. make up a job lot of the new collars...
...collar manufacturers whom Mr. Van Heusen had solicited were surprised at this quick sweep to popularity. So, no laggards, they at once produced semisoft collars of goods like the Van Heusen material. He sued them for infringement of patents and got $3,000,000 upon compromise. John B. Bolton expected to receive 30% of this sum for his work on the fabric. He got nothing, sued. Last week there was another compromise, whereby Mr. Bolton received more than $1,000,000 from Mr. Van Heusen...
According to a New Haven dispatch, two 15-piece orchestras will furnish the music. These will be Wittstein's Yale Prom orchestra and Bolton-Cipriano's orchestra from the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club. There will also be a tea dance at the Commons after the game lasting until 7 o'clock...
...autumn (1920) of his life it gains something of interest from the fact, not imparted with other items of information on the "jacket," that Wendell, dubious about the willingness of any publisher to bring it out, handed it, a month or two before his death, to his friend Mr. Bolton, librarian of the Athenaeum, bidding him do what he would with regard to its publication. The fortunate outcome of his arrangement is its issue, in a charming form, by the Harvard University Press...