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Related: About this forumOn this day, April 26, 1944, in Chicago, the US government took over retail giant Montgomery Ward.
Kevin M. Kruse Retweeted79 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.
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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').
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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
Montgomery Ward lasted over 50 years after the government takeover ended in 1945
MichMan
Apr 2024
#7
CurtEastPoint
(19,182 posts)1. The GOP and 'right wing' assholes have been greedy and hateful MOFOs for decades, haven't they?
Wuddles440
(1,407 posts)2. Interesting!
Thanks for sharing.
MichMan
(13,194 posts)3. Starbucks? n/t
snowybirdie
(5,628 posts)4. As a child
I always wondered why we never shopped at "Monkey Wards". This clarified things for me. Thanks
jimfields33
(18,878 posts)6. Didn't survive even after the government took over.
I went a few times. Its a shame it closed. Many others have closed since then.
MichMan
(13,194 posts)7. Montgomery Ward lasted over 50 years after the government takeover ended in 1945
ProfessorGAC
(69,888 posts)8. The Store In My Hometown...
...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.
3Hotdogs
(13,398 posts)5. A maggot,
before maggots were a thing.