Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sole Leather Free...
...Harness Leather Free...
...electrotype advertisement to a sectarian newspaper, discussed it, was engaged as an advertising salesman, became experienced, eventually founded one of the pioneer Chicago advertising companies, Lord & Thomas, now Lord & Thomas and Logan. So successful was Lord & Thomas that Mr. Lord could refuse a $1,000,000 contract from a leather tannery when a guarantee of results was demanded. In 1904 he retired, sold his controlling interest in the firm to Albert Davis Lasker, onetime chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board...
...expenditure of a quarter-million dollars did not put Mrs. McCormick into one of the red leather chairs in the Senate. It simply gave her the privilege of making a formal bid for it in the November election. Between now and then another campaign must occur which will undoubtedly require many more thousands of dollars...
...would be a real loss to the world," he continued, "should Italy endeavor, by inaugurating machine production ... to eliminate individual craftsmanship ... to do away with her Venetian glass or lace ... her extraordinarily fine leather and stone or wood work." The "whole Ameri can people," he insisted, is "furnish [ing] its homes with furniture of Italian make or design." Indeed, "If we [Americans] wish to study the European backgrounds of the American people of 1930, it is no longer sufficient for us simply to visit England ? we must make a trip to Italy as well?