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Beane, N. P. '44; Beard, G. B.; Beck, Borden, F.; Beer, E. T.; Berk, R. G.; Bigham, R. N.; Bird, C. D.; Bittner, J. F.; Blake, G., Jr.; Brosius, O. C.; Burr, B. M.; Burroughs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW HOUSE MEMBERS | 5/20/1942 | See Source »

...depend on E. J. pay rolls were going to speak up in his stead. The Board of Trade advised 18,500 E. J. workers to stay out of an A. F. of L. union which was trying to start in their midst. A. F. of L. Organizer Ben Berk promptly complained to the National Labor Relations Board that Endicott Johnson inspired the letter, thereby violating the Wagner Act. When George F.'s visiting friends presumably spoke for themselves last week, NLRB was still investigating Berk's complaint. In the circumstances, wise old George F. confined himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Our Friend George F. | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

With a full realization of these hardships Diony Hall and Berk Jarvis, somewhat indifferent to the news of fighting in New England, and a Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia but possessing a strong love for each other, set their backs resolutely on the civilization of their youth and rode forth into the promised land. Their adventures on the trail, their life among the rugged Titans who held the frontier forts against the redmen and the King's men, the pain, toil, and rewards, which they shared alike with their neighbors, form the theme of Miss Robert's narrative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Novels For Early Spring Reading | 3/25/1930 | See Source »

Diony Hall, daughter of Virginian pioneers, settles in what was still the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, marries her neighbor Berk Jarvis, goes with him the two-months' journey across the mountains into Kentuck, over the dim trail made by Explorer Daniel Boone. There they settle at Harrod's Fort, one of the three white settlements in the country. No one dared live outside the stockade: the Indians, hostile in their own right, were also encouraged by the British, who paid a bounty for Yankee prisoners, Yankee scalps, brought to Detroit. Once Diony and her mother-in-law wandered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Old Kentuck | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...Mills, Berk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/8/1896 | See Source »

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