[GreenKeys] For some historical perspective...

Jim Haynes jhhaynes at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 2 20:09:05 EDT 2020


There's a book I haven't got around to reading.  "City of Scoundrels"
by Gary Krist.  Chicago had some serious race rioting in 1919.  One
of the people mentioned in the book is Sterling Morton (the younger),
of the Morton Salt family.  It was he who chose the logo of the girl
with an umbrella and the slogan "when it rains it pours" for Morton
Salt.  Later he was president of the Morkrum Co., because of so much
Morton family money being invested in it.  Sterling Morton was an officer
in the Illinois Reserve Militia.  It was he who later worked out the
sale of Morkrum-Kleinschmidt, renamed Teletype Corp., to AT&T.

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 	"No it ain't! No it ain't!  But ya gotta know the territory."
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