Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Citizens Mediation Committee, decided to compromise. They proposed only a 5% wage cut. The New Bedford Manufacturers Association agreed. Then the textile unions rejected the proposal by a vote of 4 to 3. Still idle were 3,000,000 spindles, 50,000 looms. Mill workers continued to peddle fish. . . . Then the seven unions went to the polls again. Amid the yells of a blatant minority, they voted to accept the compromise. In the two leading unions the vote was close: weavers, 476 to 386; loom-fixers...
...suddenly as they had begun, the man's wanderings ceased. The police had some questions to ask him. The most important question was, "Are you Clinton S. Carnes?" When the man said he was Clinton S. Carnes, the police were proud of their perspicacity. Here was important fish for their creel...
...smell of fish, fowl, game, plants, men, sea water and crude oil steamed into Sydney, Nova Scotia, last week; took on a supply of fuel oil and at once left for Wiscasset, Me., its home port. It was the Bowdoin, Arctic exploration ship of Commander Donald B. MacMillan. His months of collecting showed that many specimens of plant and animal life existed farther north than scientists heretofore have realized. Commander MacMillan shut off from world news so long, was most eager to hear about trans-atlantic airplane flights...
...Diplomatic Gold Fish, still glass enclosed, now sit upon a dais, exposed to the pitiless peering of visitors and correspondents comfortably seated throughout the "bowl...
Charles Gates Dawes, 63, and his brother, Rufus Dawes, 61, and their families, went to Grand Manitoulin Island, Georgian Bay, Canada, to catch fish with their brother, Beman Dawes, 58. En route, in Milwaukee, Charles Gates Dawes said: "It looks like Hoover...