Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John failed to stress that nearly all such jobs are in factories set up in Britain by wealthy Jews who got out of Germany with their fortunes intact either before or just after Hitler became Chancellor in 1933. Corsets, brassieres, buttons and leather goods are the chief products of these factories. Many were set up by the Jews in plants abandoned in British "distressed areas" such as Durham. In Hampstead, London, there are now so many German Jews that Bobbies have been put on the beat who speak German. Dr. Sigmund Freud exclaimed to friends recently how startled...
...semi-pros, baseball is not a full-time job. The Bona Allens, like 50% of their bottom-crust classmen, are for the most part factory workers (at about $125 a month) for the company (Bona Allen leather company) that owns the team. The other half of the semi-pro class play on teams owned by small-town merchant groups or individuals with $5,000 and a yen to own a ball club. They include many a onetime major-leaguer on his way out, many a schoolboy on his way up. But the backbone of the semi-pros are barbers, butchers...
...drowned when the Lusitania was sunk. To his son, Elbert II, he left a lucrative property-the Roycrofter Corporation in East Aurora, N. Y. Inspired by William Morris, 19th-Century British arts-&-crafter, the Roycrofters printed and bound books, made elegant whatnots of pottery, wood, metal and hand-tooled leather. After the elder Hubbard's death, however, the community slipped financially, lately was $160,000 in the red. Last week, a religious organization called the Federation of Churches of Infinite Science, Inc. contracted to buy the Roycroft properties for $121,500 and take over most of the community...
...only thing I can see is that the New Deal is a Paul Revere ridin' hell-for-leather down Main Street spreadin' the alarm that the right way is the left way-and funny thing, damn...
When Hamilton-Brown was in its heyday 20 years ago, Willie Collins was inking leather and going to night school. In one factory and another, he later became assistant foreman, superintendent. Five years ago, while Hamilton-Brown was enjoying a brief respite between losses. Shoemaker Collins took a shoe string of $1,500 which he had saved, and with a young shoe designer named Edward W. Morris, founded Collins-Morris Shoe Co. at Marine, Mo. (capacity: 400 pairs of children's shoes a day). Six weeks later, with a bank balance of $22 and a $300 payroll to meet...