Word: eral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...C.I.O. call for a general strike of all ex cept food and drug stores closed a total of 95 of the city's 1,400 stores. A gen eral strike in the hosiery plants in and around Reading pushed the Philadelphia area's sit-down total above 20. Strongly-unionized New York City was lightly touched by the fever. Determined to stamp it out before it could get a start, police arrested 60 sit-downers in Brook lyn's Jewish Hospital for ''endangering the lives of patients," 100 in a Woolworth 5? & 10? store...
When Nebraska adopted Mr. Norris' amendment it revived the whole unicam- eral movement. Writhin three months bills for one-house Legislatures were pending in 18 States. More than half the States have now had such measures introduced and New York and New Jersey have special commissions studying the subject. The political science department of the University of Nebraska has had over 4,000 letters of inquiry on it. But the other 47 States are more than likely to wait until they see whether Nebraska's experiment justifies the unicameralists. Bicameralists claim that one house acts as a check...
...bill of $35,000 with National Broadcasting alone. The same firm announced that the Republican National Committee had up to last week spent $265,000 for use of its networks, and the Democratic National Committee -which had the advantage ear lier in the campaign of "free air" for sev eral of the President's "non-political" speeches -had spent $165,000. By the time Alf Landon makes his final broadcast from 10 p. m. to 11 p. m. on election eve the Republicans will have incurred an additional NBC bill of $90.000. And when Franklin Roosevelt gets...
...Aberdeen, S. Dak. a cheerful, prosperous-looking crowd of 15,000 gave President Roosevelt the warmest reception of his trip. There, as in other towns along his way, he saw good clothes, smiling faces, rows of new automobiles, was assured that, though crops had failed, Fed- eral relief money spent on neighborhood building and conservation projects had kept things humming. "I understand," cried he, "some people are not in favor of planning for the future. I understand some people object to spending now in order to save for the future. But it is real economy if you spend...
John Hancock Mutual, eighth largest U. S. life company, lost President Walton Lee Crocker last January, elected its gen eral counsel, Guy Wilbur Cox, to succeed him. President Cox is a member of a no table family. Brother Channing Harris Cox was a Republican Governor of Massachusetts from 1921 to 1924, now heads Bos ton's famed Old Colony Trust Co. Brother Louis Sherburne Cox sits on the Massachusetts Superior Bench. Brother Walter Randall Cox lives in Goshen, N. Y., is the most famed trainer of trotting horses in the U. S. In one Hambletonian, Goshen trotting classic, four...