Word: coke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the striking hosiery workers in Reading, Philadelphia and Lansdale, the issue in Fayette County was Unionization under the National Recovery Act. Focus of trouble was the non-union H. C. Frick Coke Co., subsidiary of the non-union U. S. Steel Corp. Even before the Recovery Act was passed in June, Frick Coke started organizing a company union, told its workers to sign up, picked representatives for them to elect as officers. Simultaneously United Mine Workers began a membership drive among Frick employes. Fortnight ago unionized miners held a protest parade at Maxwell. Deputy sheriffs hired by Frick Coke...
John Ruef, a salesman for Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., sounded an A on his oboe. During the noisy tuning up several of the amateurs nervously knocked the music off their racks. But once under way they traversed bravely the technical difficulties of a Bach Chorale and Fugue, of Brahms's great Fourth Symphony. Violinist Amy Neill, wife of Lawyer Avern Scolnik who fiddled in the orchestra, soloed so expertly that critics complained sincerely about her playing so seldom in public. Wives and families of the players applauded so persistently that portly Conductor Clarence Evans got some real exercise...
...animals are part of a memorial gate to the late Paul James Rainey, famed big game hunter. Cleveland coal & coke scion (TIME, Oct. i, 1923). Rainey was the first to hunt African lions with dog packs, the first to make a wild animal cinema (1912). In 1925 the Rainey family offered the Bronx Zoo a huge (35 ft. high, 42 ft. wide) bronze double gate as a memorial to Paul, commissioned Manship to design...
George Alfred Ranney, vice president of International Harvester, author of some of its clear, frank financial statements, director of Chicago's First National Bank, and great, golf-playing friend of Melvin Traylor, accepted an offer to become vice chairman and financial head of Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas Light & Coke, Public Service of Northern Illinois-posts recently held by Samuel Insull...
...Last week Insull Jr. was dropped as vice chairman of Commonwealth Edison Co. and of Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. Similar action is expected from the third big Insull operating company, Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois. Because Insull Jr. knows the companies in & out, James Simpson who succeeded Insull Sr. as chairman of the three concerns, will retain him as his assistant...