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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,949 posts)
Fri Apr 26, 2024, 06:37 AM Apr 2024

On this day, April 26, 1944, in Chicago, the US government took over retail giant Montgomery Ward.

Kevin M. Kruse Retweeted

79 years ago today in Chicago: the US government took over retail giant Montgomery Ward & physically ejected the company's millionaire chairman, Sewell Avery, after he defied an order from the National War Labor Board to recognize his workers' democratically elected union.





Sewell Avery was a prominent member/funder of right-wing, anti-New Deal business groups like the Liberty League & Crusaders, which were implicated in the failed 1933-34 coup plot against FDR, as alleged by Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler (& dramatized in the 2022 movie 'Amsterdam').







Wed Apr 26, 2023: On this day, April 26, 1944, in Chicago, the US government took over retail giant Montgomery Ward.
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On this day, April 26, 1944, in Chicago, the US government took over retail giant Montgomery Ward. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 OP
The GOP and 'right wing' assholes have been greedy and hateful MOFOs for decades, haven't they? CurtEastPoint Apr 2024 #1
Interesting! Wuddles440 Apr 2024 #2
Starbucks? n/t MichMan Apr 2024 #3
As a child snowybirdie Apr 2024 #4
Didn't survive even after the government took over. jimfields33 Apr 2024 #6
Montgomery Ward lasted over 50 years after the government takeover ended in 1945 MichMan Apr 2024 #7
The Store In My Hometown... ProfessorGAC Apr 2024 #8
A maggot, 3Hotdogs Apr 2024 #5

jimfields33

(18,878 posts)
6. Didn't survive even after the government took over.
Fri Apr 26, 2024, 07:58 AM
Apr 2024

I went a few times. It’s a shame it closed. Many others have closed since then.

ProfessorGAC

(69,888 posts)
8. The Store In My Hometown...
Fri Apr 26, 2024, 05:35 PM
Apr 2024

...closed early 90s. It was one of the last of their stores to shutter. I think only 4 were still open when thus one closed.
But yeah, that was 48 years after this event.

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