Word: francises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago the United Textile Workers held a meeting in Manhattan and with only a handful of dissenting votes demanded that NRA increase wages, cut hours, end the "stretch-out" and grant them union recognition. Otherwise?a strike on or about Sept. 1. Since President McMahon had been elevated to...
One sunny day last week New York City's Police Commissioner John Francis O'Ryan celebrated his 60th birthday. Same day Rubel Ice Corp., operating 40 distributing plants throughout the city, was making backpage news on the ground that the firm had refused to sell small ice peddlers short lots...
Birthdays. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the 26th U. S. President, 73; Charles Francis Adams, onetime Secretary of the Navy, 68; King Haakon of Norway, 62; General Hugh Samuel Johnson, 52.
"Vanderbilt's Daughter," an old Virginia ballad appearing in Eight Negro Songs collected by Francis H. Abbott in 1923, includes lines which might well be the source of parts of "Casey Jones." Samples:
Sued for Divorce. Minnesota's Representative Francis Henry Shoemaker, "only ex-convict in Congress"; by Mrs. Lydia Schneider Shoemaker; in New London, Wis. Charges: "Cruel and inhuman treatment."