Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME, May 29 on pp. 18 and 19 under Labor news referring to Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen convention now being held in Cleveland you. . . [state...
VIRGINIA ALBRIGHT Cleveland, Ohio...
...walls of the 17-acre, air-conditioned clothing factory of Richman Bros. Co. on Cleveland's East 55th Street bloomed last week with signs: "Remember Dad." Each of 2,500 Richman Bros, employes (all but some 25 of whom are stockholders in the company, none of whom is a union member) gave 1? to buy a gift that "daddy" would like. At week's end, beaming through his bifocals, 70-year-old "daddy" got his Father's Day present: two pairs of pajamas...
...Henry Richman started the business in Portsmouth, Ohio in 1853-25 years before it moved to Cleveland-often wholesaled his suits and overcoats in trade for pig iron and salt. After his three sons got into the company it really grew. Son Charles Lehman (who died in 1936), "the merry one," became president. Son Henry Centennial (who died in 1934), "the quiet one," became secretary-treasurer. "Mr. N. G."-"the grave one"-became chairman of the board. "Mr. N. G." in 1903 hit on the profitable idea of selling Richman Bros. $22.50 suits direct to wearer. Today the company operates...
...Cleveland 9, Washington...