Mayor Jane Byrne’s Secret Transition Report
Next Because Byrne had run as a reform candidate, after the primary election she quickly sought advice from a panel of knowledgeable experts pulled together for a transition team headed by a Northwestern University professor, Louis Masotti. [...]
Mayor Byrne’s 90-Day Report Card
Next Mike Royko feels proud to be a Chicagoan In the 1975 Democratic primary election for mayor, the Chicago Tribune had taken a pass on the endorsement of any of the candidates, saying it was a [...]
The Machine Weakens after Daley’s Death
Next With the anti-Daley vote thus split, Daley was reelected in the Democratic primary election in February 1975 with 58 percent of the vote. Singer came in second with 29 percent, Newhouse with 8 percent, and Hanrahan 5 [...]
Jane Byrne vs. The Chicago Tribune
Next Jane Byrne In June 1980, as Jane Byrne was starting her second year as Chicago’s first woman mayor, a strange media brouhaha briefly transfixed the city. She had become enraged at a Chicago Tribune story [...]
Bradford Then and Now
Next Chapter Hammacher-Schlemmer's 5th Avenue Store in Manhattan closes in 2023 Rod MacArthur had primarily bought Hammacher to expand its mail order catalog business. Founded in 1848, Hammacher remains America’s oldest-running catalog. Before long, he had added [...]
Hammacher Schlemmer
Next Hammacher Schlemmer catalog item As I began work for Bradford in 1979, Rod MacArthur was directly engaged in the management of the company, but he was increasingly spending his nine-to-five hours doing [...]
Copyright and Trademark Mastery
Next Early Bradford Exchange logo The marketing of collector’s plates involved a good deal of intellectual property law. The plate designs were mostly protected by copyright laws that prevented the artistic work from [...]
Hiring Lawyers
Next Wizard of Oz Collectors Plate I got extensive experience at Bradford in managing litigation outside the United States. Bradford’s collector’s plates were usually made from isolated kaolin clay deposits in China, Japan, [...]
Rod MacArthur and The MacArthur Foundation
Next William T. Kirby When his father had died at the age of 81 in 1978, most of his wealth had been left to the Foundation in the form of his sole ownership [...]
