Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lineup for the game is as follows: HARVARD DANVERS (No.1) E. K. Jenkins '31 Millican John Iselin '29 A. Mason H. I. Nicholas '31 (No.2) G. O. Clark L. A. Shaw '30 (No.3) K. C. T. Gerry '31 A. Mason Jr. (No.4) Thomas Glynn '29 Samuel Hopkins J. P. Cotton...
Last week the spokesmen of 27,000 textile workers of New Bedford, Mass., said NO to the State, citizens, manufacturers. Ever since early April, when a 10% cut in cotton mill wages was announced, the seven unions of the New Bedford Textile Council have conducted a strike (TIME, Aug. 13). The former average wage of $19 a week was. they said, scant enough; $17 was unthinkable. Recently the State Board of Conciliation & Arbitration, the Citizens Mediation Committee, decided to compromise. They proposed only a 5% wage cut. The New Bedford Manufacturers Association agreed. Then the textile unions rejected the proposal...
...Durham, N. C., there was only one fire in the month of August. This was caused by one drop of sweat which fell from one H. Toohey, an employe in a hosiery mill, into a combination of cotton-bleaching chemicals, causing combustion...
...Montgomery Ward & Co. and Cudahy Packing Co. both asked for short wave channels to transact business between their branches over the country. Anderson, Clayton & Co., potent cotton brokers, asked for a channel between their Houston and Manhattan offices...
Chee-Chee. Such is the babyish title of an Eastern and elaborate musical comedy whose plot depends, not upon romance and cotton-wool, but upon the hero's efforts to avoid castration. The hero is the son, born in early wedlock, of the Grand Eunuch. Not wishing to be his father's successor, he flees the royal city in company with his wife, Chee-Chee. On the road, they are beset by Tartars, monks and brigands who beat the hero and take Chee-Chee off-stage for purposes which can be guessed. Finally the Grand Eunuch catches...