Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early in April, notices of a 10% wage-cut were posted in the textile mills of New Bedford, Mass. Out walked the workers. Last week, the eleventh of the strike, the signs were still posted. Some 22,000 mule-spinners, loom-fixers, weavers, carders, slasher-tenders, fram-spinners and doffers, warp-dressers, beamers and twisters had lost about $4,000,000 in wages and the mills had lost some $1,820,000 in idle overhead. Mediation by citizens remained futile. New Bedford was a dead city, except for the fish trade. . . . But the cloth market's season for fall...
Engaged. Lucie Bedford, daughter of Frederick T. Bedford,* of Manhattan, yachtsman-president of Penick & Ford (Brer Rabbit molasses and syrup), granddaughter of Standard Oilman E. T. Bedford; to Briggs S. Cunningham, Cincinnati scion...
...Clark '29 Boston 205 6.05 21 No. 5 W. G. Saltonstall '28 Milton 185 6.02 22 No. 4 C. E. Mason '30 Boston 186 6.03 19 No. 3 W. T. Emmet '29 New York 175 6.03 21 No. 2 L. W. Dickey '30 Bedford Hills, N. Y. 175 6.02 21 Bow J. DeW. Hubbard '29 Brookline 180 6.02 23 Cox., C. H. Pforzheimer '28 New York 115 5.04 20 Harvard Junior Crew Position Name Class Residence Wt. Ht. Age Stroke James Lawrence '28 Milton 175 6.01 21 No. 7 Allerton Cushman '29 Boston...
Mary du Cauroy, Duchess of Bedford, not content to cast 62-year-old eyes on the phenomena of eagles and buzzards (TIME, April 23), demanded the controls of the Fokker monoplane in which she will fly to India and back. Pilot Barnard hesitated, sniffed the gusty wind, complied. Upon landing, he admitted: "The Duchess did extremely well for a day like this...
...method of forcing a balance between the manufacturing costs and selling costs of fabrics which New Bedford and neighboring Taunton, Mass., textile makers adopted last week was to reduce wages. The New Bedford Silk Mills cut pay by 25%, and at once 140 employes walked out. Twenty-seven cotton mills announced 10% pay cuts for the beginning of this past week and 2,571 mill hands immediately voted to go on strike. The three local newspapers are condemning both wage reductions and strike...