Word: cresap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancestor referred to is Captain Michael Cresap. No one has an ancestor in whom he takes more pride than I take in Captain Michael. He was an Indian fighter of rare courage. He took part in Dunmore's War in 1774 and drove the Indians from the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania back into Ohio. At the treaty of peace, Cresap was accused of having murdered the family of a friendly Indian named Logan. He paid no attention to the charges and soon was summoned to raise a company of riflemen for the Revolutionary War. His company marched...
...company's founders or of anyone else in the cloak & suit trade, President Cresap traces his line back to Maryland in 1710 and thence to Yorkshire, England. He is ashamed of one of his doughty ancestors who was tried for "inhuman activities" in the form of scalping an Indian...
...Amalgamated Clothing Workers, potent supporter of John L. Lewis's C. I. O. Laborite Hillman, who got his start as an agitating cutter in the Hart Schaffner & Marx shops in Chicago, attended the Jubilee banquet, was snapped exchanging toasts with Hart Schaffner & Marx's President Mark Winfield Cresap...
...rotten cutter," chuckles President Cresap...
...During Depression the Hart Schaffner & Marx volume dropped 55% in number of suits & coats, even more in dollars because of the demand for cheaper lines. The decision to enter the low-priced field caused a major management upheaval and cost the company some of its swankier outlets but President Cresap's drive for volume has been successful...