Word: aitchison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heatless, lightless factory. . . . Heat came up after two days, but negotiations to end the strike remained frozen. Like Governor Murphy, sympathetic Governor Homer refused to risk bloodshed by sending militia to evict the sitters. As General Motors' officials had first done, Fansteel's President Robert J. Aitchison stood firm on his property rights, refused to discuss a settlement until his plant was evacuated. Thrice rejecting Governor Horner's pleas for a conference, he said he was perfectly willing to talk to his own employes, but would never treat with their outside C. I. O. leaders. "If they...
...pagan but a Coptic Christian, Her Majesty had come not only to visit Christian shrines but also to dedicate an Abyssinian Coptic Christian Church. Jerusalem's handful of Abyssinians excitedly waved date palms. A crowd of Coptic priests, Abyssinian officials and Palestine's Acting High Commissioner Mark Aitchison Young, all tried to make the fat brown beauty feel as happy as the Queen of Sheba. Only a 20th Century Solomon was lacking. Jerusalem's present ruler, stiff Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, British High Commissioner of Palestine, was at home in England...