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Though 75% of the stock in Hart Schaffner & Marx is still owned by the founders' heirs (another 15% by officers and employes) the only Hart Schaffner or Marx active in the business today is Vice President & Secretary Abraham S. Hart, son of one of the two brothers who really started the business. The Brothers Hart, Max and Harry, were German Jews from Eppelsheim who had been taken by their parents to the U. S. with eight other children before the Civil War. Vice President Hart recounted last week how the twelve big & little Harts, upon debarking in Manhattan after...
Celebrated in Chicago last week was the 50th anniversary of the best-known name in men's clothing-Hart Schaffner & Marx. Starting with a banquet, ending with a theatre party, the celebration provided a happy opportunity for more than 200 big retailers from all sections to mix fun with business, for the occasion coincided with the opening of the buying season for autumn lines. Much was the talk of rising prices in both woolen goods (up 33%) and tailored product (up 10% to 15%). Serious were the discussions of trends in colors (gayer) and styles (toward draped models). Hart...
...particularly last week was the company's 26 years of industrial peace since it started to deal with Sidney Hillman's 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...
Organizations entertained by the Bond Club this winteh have been the New England Conservatory of Music, Somerville Junior High School, Boy Scouts of Roslindale, Simmons College, Hart School of South Boston, students of the State Extension Courses, Burke High School in Boston, Salem High School, Fenn School, Thayer Academy, Winsor School, American Physical Society (M. I. T.), Newtonville School, Elizabeth Peabody House, Cambridge Settlement Home, Boston Alumni of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Stoneham Junior High School, Girls High School in Roxbury; Girl Scouts of Arlington, Concord, Waltham, Hingham, West Medford, Somerville, and Salem; and church groups from Salem, Brookline, Kingston, Framingham...
...race is over. When last week, instead of being ahead at Hammersmith, Cambridge was amazingly a few feet behind, spectators on the banks knew how the race must end. For a few lengths, Cambridge's U. S. coxswain, Hunter, and Oxford's Merifield-replacing 56-lb. Hart Massey who was so minute that his crew would have needed a special shell (TIME, Feb. 1) -steered their boats so close that from the bank it looked as though the oars might lock. Then, with Hodgson at stroke, Sturrock and Cherry, veterans of England's Olympic crew...