Word: began
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Carolina mills, where weavers, without organizing, had struck against new orders calling for increased production from each employe, strikers began to dribble back to their looms as stopwatches disappeared and efficiency experts' reports went into office trash-baskets...
...three o'clock in the afternoon, of Friday, April 19, began the greatest endurance test since Dempsey beat Carpentiers. Two strong and husky entrants from that respected school across the Common, were to sit in opposite windows of a music store on Holyoke St., and play victoria records continuously until one or the other should fall asleep or faint of fatigue. To the winner the proprietor of the shop promised to award a handsome prize of twenty-five dollars, and to the loser a generous prize of ten dollars...
...Malcolm Greene Chace-a quiet man of mystery-millions, a man so quiet his name is not on his office door or in Who's Who. For years he was a dominant stockholder in International Paper and New England Power. When he obtained control of the former, combinations began. He kept in the background. Seldom has his name appeared in print except, during the 90's, in the sport news. He used to be an able tennis racqueteer. His background is Quaker, and old New English. His father, Arnold Buffum Chace, is chancellor of Brown University. The Chace...
When the textile industry declined and power sites began to be cheap, into New England from the midwest went a little man used to doing things in a big way - Samuel Insull, public utility pope of Chicago. His operations centred at first in Maine, where securities of his Central Maine Power & Light have become popular legal tender and his henchmen, Walter S. Wyman and Guy P. Gannett, are ruling powers. Mr. Wyman is Water Power. Mr. Gannett, a cousin of Chain-Publisher Frank Gannett of Rochester, Syracuse, Brooklyn, Hartford, Albany, Utica, Elmira, Newburgh-Beacon (N. Y.), Plainfield (N. J.), Ithaca...
...Endured"; this latest and last, "To All Who Hope." That is a strange title to give a pessimistic climax like this: "The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and before history began murderous strife was universal and unending. . . ." Moreover, "it was not until the dawn of the 20th century of the Christian era that War really began to enter into its kingdom. j> "The War stopped as suddenly and as universally as it had begun. ... In a hundred laboratories, in a thousand arsenals, factories...