Word: 87th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the strike was called the hotels declared that previous offers were off. Week after week negotiations blew hot, then cold. Last month one hotel sued the City of San Francisco for damages, alleging insufficient police protection for continuation of operations. Last week on the strike's 87th day a settlement was finally arranged by which the front office clerks, about 75, were recognized, though on other points the strikers lost ground. Even after the settlement the strikers refused to return to work until the hotels signed contracts with twelve nonstriking unions such as barbers, electricians, musicians...
Into the patio of Palm Beach's No. 1 estate for the No. 1 party of the winter thronged some 400 guests to sip champagne, eat strawberry ice, listen as Banker Edward Townsend Stotesbury celebrated his 87th birthday by rattling a snare drum as he did in the Civil War. A hale, hearty, dapper little man, Host Stotesbury, Philadelphia's richest tycoon, senior partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., was also persuaded to sing his favorite song. The Old Family Toothbrush that Hangs in the Sink...
...Manhattan the Empire State Building had its official baptism-by-suicide when Frederick Eckert, 33, with a German prayerbook and two religious medals in his pocket jumped from the tower (103rd floor), landed on the 87th floor setback. (In 193, before the building was done, a discharged workman leaped down an elevator shaft from the 102nd floor, landed on the 80th...
...most complete, comprehensive summing up was accomplished at Cleveland where 5,000 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science gathered for their 87th annual convention. Two thousand scientists read papers ranging in subject from the size & shape of the universe to the sex expression of cucumbers. They adopted a resolution protesting against the bill before Congress to prohibit the use of dogs for vivisection in the District of Columbia. For the first time, a well organized exhibition of research projects was included in the meeting so that scientists could see what they heard. Many were disappointed because...