Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...F. MATTHEW...
Pittsburgh is the operators' capital. There, 18 months ago the largest bituminous coal operator in the world, the Pittsburgh Coal Co., went nonunion. April 1, when the strike began is a Union fête day; in Pittsburgh, past smoke-stained buildings, union miners paraded to honor John Mitchell, champion of the eight-hour day. They timed their march to pass the shops of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. as the noon shift changed; they hoped by display of power to draw non-union men into the striking ranks. But non-union men, indifferent, raised no cheers. Only heart-breaking...
Soon it was ascertained that "Benny" is Lieutenant Benjamin F. Staud of Pittsburgh, who pulled the lanyard firing the first U. S. gun to send a shell spinning over Nanking. Commodore Dewey's "Gridley" was Charles Vernon Gridley of Logansport...
Colgate-Pompeian. Bayard Colgate, director of Colgate & Co. (soaps, perfumes, toilet articles), went to Cleveland last week to talk with President Otto F. Leopold of Pompeian Manufacturing Co. (cosmetics). Result: Colgate & Co. acquired control of the Pompeian concern...
...kind of circulation with] are multiplying with astounding rapidity throughout every corner of the United States! [Exclamation marks are sometimes effective] ... Women's clubs, churches, teachers and all decent folk in general owe it to themselves to face the facts- the sinister facts, as set forth by Frederic F. Van de Water in 'The Obscene Drama' in the April issue now on sale, ten cents...