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Winfield Scott first attracted public attention as a major general when he strongly criticized General Andrew Jackson. The hotheaded Jackson challenged him to a duel, but Scott declined. In 1828, he was back in the public eye when he was relieved of his command after repeatedly threatening to disobey the...
It is hard to say which has had most to do with establishing this pre-eminence-the Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, with its statue-strewn fairyland for the hallowed loved ones, or Pierce Brothers Mortuaries, proud custodians of the West's biggest funeral business.
Pickets in Ascot Ties. Pierce Brothers claimed to be the first in the U.S. to advertise low-price funerals, first to send motorcycle escorts with the casket coach (nobody any longer calls them hearses in the profession) and first (outside New York itself) to embalm 6,000 remains in a...
The cause: the happy morticians' own employees. First they joined a union (for reasons best known to themselves, a branch of the A.F.L. International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers). Then-Pierce Brothers complained-they mischievously switched the routing tag on a casket and sent a loved one to the...
Sentiment v. Unionism. The employers, however, took the attitude that the dissidents had been privileged to serve and had betrayed a trust. Pierce Brothers declared that the strikers were about to ruin one of the greatest privileges of life in Los Angeles-a $560 funeral (at New York rates) for...