Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for divorce in Trenton, N. J. last week was President Peter C. Christensen of Button Corp. of America, his wife charging that he had lavished a small fortune on a blonde artists' model, asking $1,000 per week alimony. Given this new idea of his wealth, Mr. Christensen's 400 employes promptly decided that he could afford to pay them better wages, walked out on strike. Up in a big black limousine drove Mrs. Christensen to cheer on the strikers, march for an hour in their picket line. Said Mr. Christensen, peering from behind his office curtains...
RAINBOW FISH-Ralph Bates-Button...
...Duesenberg motor on a 178-inch wheelbase, the tonneau to contain a raised throne surrounded by seats for eight people, with star-shaped windows on each side and a crescent one in the rear (see cut, p. 59). The top was designed, at the touch of a button, to swing back and down revealing the throne-sitter-presumably Father Divine. The interior was to be lined with leather, the ceiling, of white plush with gold stars. On the radiator would be Father Divine's symbol, a dove. Aware that Hunt designed the throne car and probably planned...
...interesting of these abstractionists is Artist Albert Eugene Gallatin, Eugene to his friends, though art critics know him better as a patron than a producer of art. Always free from the necessity of earning a living. Eugene Gallatin was definitely one of the lads in the days of pearl-button reefers and horse-headed canes. A member of the swank Union Club for many years, he was founder, remains president of the moribund Motor-Car Touring Society, whose object was to bring a tone of dashing sportsmanship to the horseless carriage...
Buggyman Heitman has 80 men working six days and three nights a week. Last year they turned out 9,000 wagons and 3,000 buggies by hand. More than half were sold in Louisiana, where descendants of French Acadians dislike automobiles. The bearded, button-shunning Amish Mennonites of Pennsylvania also give Herman Heitman much business. Explained he last week: "The Amish people are unalterably opposed to ostentation in any form...