Word: hatter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quaint and wonderful business of making hats, an historic event took place last week. The John B. Stetson Co., largest hat dispenser in the world, bought out the Mallory Hat Co., one of the runners-up in the trade and the oldest hatter...
...outraged his father, a prosperous Manhattan hatter, by insisting on songwriting ("Why didn't you become a bootlegger and be done with it?"), turned out the suave scores of No, No, Nanette* and Flying Down to Rio before chronic illness blighted his career at full bloom...
...long editorial the Times thundered that it must have been the work of some mad hatter in a bygone...
Later, one Frederick Willis, an Edwardian survivor who accredited himself as "an old silk-hatter familiar with all the Great Hats of a great age," set the record straight: "The specimen ... is of the period of 1907 to 1914. The inverted pipe curl (not gutter, as stated) was conceived, not by a madman . . . but by a master born out of his time, like Picasso. He visualized a market of individualists, and his vision was inspired by deep study of 18th-Century social history. Unfortunately the vanguard of standardized man was already overrunning England, the last stronghold of the individualist...
...After 1902's famed Danbury Hatters strike, Lawyer Merritt sued the A.F. of L. hatter's union under the antitrust laws, won the company a judgment of more than $200,000 against 191 union members...