Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bedford, Mass., is a city of some 120,000 inhabitants. Ordinarily, it is a pleasant and prosperous city to live in. Dominating its industrial life, chief support of its storekeepers and its landlords, are, of course, its famed cotton textile mills. And since the War, New Bedford mills have done exceedingly well, declaring cash dividends of over $32,000,000, stock dividends of about half that sum. They employ 35,000 operatives. They produce a high grade of cloth, so high that they are virtually free from the competition of Southern mills...
...Great National Unions of locomotive engineers, firemen, railway men and railway clubs. Jointly and solemnly they covenanted that for the next twelvemonth a cut of 2½% in pay will be accepted by every underling executive officer and director of the railways concerned. Contrarywise, 500,000 Manchester cotton workers announced last week, that they would strike for higher pay, but were locked out before they could strike by irate employers...
...Pennington, a little older* than she was at first, flung herself here and there in the motions of a new dance called Pickin' Cotton. Frances Williams shuffled also while she sang a song of which the words were "What d'ya Say?" Creeping forth from his cool cabaret with enhanced joie de vivre, Harry Richman shouted "I'm on the crest of a wave. . . ." As in all of Producer White's assemblies, the footwork in the Scandals was swift and spry, attended to by Tom Patricola, a pair of coordinated sisters, a well-coached chorus...
...first Briton ever to take the Speaker's Chair after having been "in trade" (in business). Modest yet inflexible, he last week retired as a commoner entitled to a pension of £4,000 ($19,440) a year, having risen from the nonentity of a poor cotton spinner. His successor is Speaker the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, son of Baron Southampton, one-time Page of Honor to Queen Victoria, but now called "Mr. Speaker" and ranking as "First Commoner of the Realm...
HARVARD YALE Mandell, No. 1 No. 1, Wallop Burnett, No. 2 No. 2, Phipps Cotton, No. 3 No. 3, Baldwin Gibb, Back Back, Scott...