Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less a permanent fixture in Cambridge than Memorial Hall or the Lampoon's annual wheeze about Freshman advisers is David Dickinson '20, the big man with the broad brimmed hat, who for fifteen years has on fair days followed the fire engines in a red three-wheeled contraption that looks like a cross between a kiddie-car and a barber's chair...
...Dickinson's little vehicle was made specially in Dayton, Ohio, and is run by electricity. "It only goes about 17 miles an hour, but it seems a lot faster," he explained yesterday. "And it certainly is handy getting around in traffic...
Died. Edward Dickinson Duffield, 67, president of Prudential Insurance Co. of America, chairman of the board of trustees of Princeton University, onetime (1932-33) acting president of Princeton University, No. 1 alumnus; of heart disease; in South Orange...
Concretely, P. I.'s interpretation of "the advertiser system" has meant consistent advocacy of higher wages as a means of maintaining purchasing power. Most enthusiastic proponent of this view is tall, alert Clinton Roy Dickinson, president of Printers' Ink Publishing Co., Inc., author of two books and numerous short stories. In 1921 Author Dickinson served as a member of the unemployment conference called by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, was the lone supporter of the late A. F. of L. President Samuel Gompers in a minority report opposing wage reductions. Publisher Dickinson believes he would not be alone...
They and a C. I. O. union had got into a row over the right to represent employes of Union Premier Food Stores Inc. NLRB called an election to determine the workers' preference. A. F. of L. refused to participate, picketed the stores, demanded that Judge Dickinson dismiss the company's petition for a restraining order. Instead, Judge Dickinson found that the Wagner Act permitted him to do, in NLRB's interest, what the Norris-LaGuardia Act forbade: order the pickets to disperse...