Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Readers of the Chicago Daily News were recently tantalized and vexed by a tale which its star correspondent, Julian F. Haas, cabled from Nicaragua. The story concerned the U. S. lieutenant "who has the reputation of having the largest foot in the Marine Corps. . . . Every shoe or boot that he requires has to be made to order...
Investigating he found that the prison's shoe bill was $55,000 a year, or $35 per man per annum. This seemed extravagant. Why should Louisiana pay its convicts $12 per pair for shoes worn out in penal servitude...
Governor Long discovered a shoemaker who would supply solid boots, good for six months of prison mileage, at $1.60 the pair. This figure made the shoe bill only $3.20 per convict per annum. Pleased with himself, Governor Long loudly called attention to a saving of $50,000 a year or $200,000 for a four-year term...
Died. Jackson Johnson, 69, founder and chairman of the board of International Shoe Co. (world's biggest manufacturer of shoes); of angina pectoris; at Daytona Beach, Fla. Shoemaker Johnson, at 18, opened his first store at Holly Springs, Miss., organized shoe businesses in Memphis, Tenn., and St. Louis, which he made his home. Said he: "I moved shoes West...
...Abolished "gum shoe" squad-special police largely engaged in reporting on other police-exiled its head to duty in Long Island City...