Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DAN R. WINTER...
Died. Harrison Robertson Fitzgerald, 57, of Danville, Va., president of Riverside & Dan River Cotton Mills Inc., director of the American Cotton Manufacturers' Association, an organizer and director of the Cotton Textile Institute; of heart disease; in Danville. Though he was active in promoting "industrial democracy," his mills were lately the scene of a four-month strike (TIME, Jan. 12), the strain of which led to his death...
...Eastern Dog Club exhibit held last week in Boston was vivacious Weltona Frizette of Wildoaks, wire-haired Fox Terrier owned by Mrs. Richard C. Bondy of Goldenbridge, N. Y. Last month she sulked listlessly at the Westminster Kennel Club show in Manhattan, won nothing (TIME, Feb. 23). Blue Dan of Happy Valley, English Setter who just missed being best-in-show at Manhattan, missed again, was again second...
Only a thin plaster partition in a Danville, Va. hotel one day last week separated the persons of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Harrison Robertson Fitzgerald, president of Riverside & Dan River Mills Co. Their industrial principles, however, remained poles apart. What tied them together in the week's news were their conflicting interests in the A. F. of L.'s strike, biggest of the Depression, in Mr. Fitzgerald's Danville mills, largest and long the most peaceful of Southern textile plants. President Green conferred with strike leaders in a private parlor...
...Riverside & Dan River Mills strad dle the Dan River, are connected by covered concrete bridges. Normally the personnel numbers 4,500 operatives. President Fitzgerald, whose father was one of the company's founders, started at 17 to work in the plant. When he became its head he organized the mills into a thoroughgoing industrial "republic" with himself as president. He built a $250,000 Y. M. C. A. for his workers, supplied them with neat houses, free electricity. Because he believes that his deafness was caused by poor medical attention when he was a boy, he provided plant doctors...