Rob Warden
I had met journalist Rob Warden both through my law practice, and separately knew him from frequenting Riccardo’s bar after working hours. Warden was a former foreign correspondent in the Middle East for the Chicago Daily News and had [...]
Mayor Jane Byrne’s Secret Transition Report
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. Masotti had taken [...]
Mayor Byrne’s 90-Day Report Card
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 question of, “whether to stay aboard the rudderless galleon with rotting timbers [...]
The Machine Weakens after Daley’s Death
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 percent. In [...]
Jane Byrne vs. The Chicago Tribune
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 and in a fit of anger [...]
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, [...]
