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...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...
...Philadelphia Author John T. McIntyre wrote gimcrack historical novels and Broadway melodramas. Then he staked a claim on Philadelphia's underworld and immediately struck pay dirt. The minor crooks, racketeers, pickpockets, cardsharps, pimps, stools, finks of Steps Going Down (1936) and Ferment (1937) were as tough as shoe leather, as American as a tabloid. In Signing Off, however, Author McIntyre's claim begins to look as if it were rapidly being worked...
Soda Water to Shanghai. Otway Hebron Chalkley, born in Richmond some 50 years ago (he is even bashful about his exact age), was the only child of a prosperous, respected leather merchant. In Richmond he is remembered now as an expert player of bandy (a form of hockey), a proficient swimmer in the local holes-which go by such picturesque names as Soda Water, Cherry, Heaven, Hell-and a sober student. From school he went to work as an office boy for American Tobacco Co. at $3 a week, began a standard up-through-the-ranks career-factory manager...