Word: hart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Occasionally Hart Schaffner & Marx also helps out its suppliers. After the post-War inflation, American Woolen Mills went to the company cup in hand, requesting $200,000. Mr. Schaffner drummed his desk when asked what he thought about it, then said: "Times are pretty hard. Better let them have a million...
...Harry Hart throve on the strenuous Chicago pace, opening a small clothing store in Chicago in 1872. When an out-of-town merchant admired their stocks, the Hart boys offered to supply him with a few suits, a move which soon led to the establishment of a wholesale house, one of their backers being a relative named Marcus Marx, who had run a general store in Hastings, Minn. Aside from drawing down profits, that was all that Marx ever had to do with Hart Schaffner & Marx...
...anniversary purposes the company dates from 1887 when Joseph Schaffner threw in his lot with his distant cousins the Hart boys. After 17 years as a bookkeeper and credit man in a Chicago dry-goods house, Joseph Schaffner decided that the opportunities were limited and, at 40 was about to start afresh in the mortgage business in St. Paul. Joseph Schaffner always said the Hart boys were "wizards' but the rise of Hart Schaffner & Marx tc its present status as a national institution is generally credited to wise, scholarly Mr. Schaffner...
...began to spend money for advertising, a move which has made Hart Schaffner & Marx a household name and a music hall gag for the last third of a century. Hart Schaffner & Marx copy forms a faithful record of what the U. S dandy has believed were the styles of the times. Best advertising stunt in the company's history was to plaster France with $50,000 worth of banners right after the Armistice, announcing to the A. E. F.: "Stylish clothes are ready for you in the good old U. S. A.-All-wool guaranteed-Hart Schaffner & Marx...
...regular customers Hart Schaffner & Marx looks to the man making between $2,500 and $6,000 per year and living 11 cities of 200,000 to 500,000. Always close to its retailers, Hart Schaffner & Marx often helps them out with advances, sometimes has to take over a store to protect its involuntary investment. Occasionally it buys out a retailer who is going out of business, to preserve a good outlet. Wallach's with nine stores in and around Manhattan is now a Hart Schaffner & Marx subsidiary, having been bought after the original owners announced that they intended...