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¶The clean aromatic smell of raw pine wood spread through the White House. Excelsior littered the floors. Busy workmen in overalls came and went. Mrs. Coolidge was packing. Into 150 new boxes, crates and barrels under her careful eye went objets d'art, china, books, whittling knives, stag...
There followed a few days in the Vice-Presidential suite at the New Willard Hotel and the wholesale resignation of the Cabinet - Hughes and Mellon, Hoover and Davis, New and Wallace, Work, Weeks, Daugherty and Denby - and every resignation rejected as it came. There followed the entrance into the White...
We wanted to have a black-line picture of a man in trunks, bending under the flail of the Coach.
Yet the trunk of today might mucH resemble the trunk of yesterday were it not for Innovation Trunk Co. and Innovator Seymour W. Bonsall. In 1897 Mr. Bonsall was a Manhattan stock broker, but interested in inventions as well as in the market. To him, in a dream, came the...
Obviously a notable trunk improvement, the wardrobe trunk was well received; soon other companies were making trunks of the wardrobe type. For a time, Innovation, the pioneer, remained the leader. Eventually, however, Oshkosh, Hartmann and other trunk companies became more potent in the field. Finally, in 1924, Innovation had a...