Word: gardners
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High Point. Without troops, without police, unarmed and unattended. North Carolina's Governor Oliver Max Gardner fortnight ago settled a nasty strike among High Point's hosiery workers. During July roving bands of strikers caused a hundred textile plants in the State's northern Piedmont section to shut down, forced some 12,000 employes out of work. In 24 High Point, mills the dispute was over a $2.25 base wage demanded by 6,000 strikers and $2 offered by employers...
Though North Carolina has no arbitration law, Governor Gardner went to High Point to settle the strike in person. Striding calmly, boldly among the strikers he declared: "I come here disinterested, with no knowledge of the facts but for North Carolina's welfare. A strike like this is war and war is insanity. You may be right. On the other hand the manufacturers may be right. I don't know. Somewhere between you and the manufacturers is the right thing to do. I want this strike settled today...
...Senator McKellar ("Nonsense") and Mississippi's Representative Collins ("Silly"). The U. S. Press generally acclaimed it as able." "timely and bold," "sensible," "irrefutable" ¶To find a successor to Charles Gates Dawes on the board of Reconstruction Finance Corp., President Hoover last week looked to Iowa and appointed Gardner Cowles, 71-year-old-publisher of the Des Moines Register and Tribune. An "independent" Republican, Mr. Cowles is a director of Northwest Bancorporation, has served his President on the Commission on Conservation...
Engaged. Virginia Dawes, 18, daughter of General Charles Gates Dawes; and Ensign John Gardner Tennent, U. S. N., of Fredericksburg, Va.; in Chicago...
...Thurman, Iowa, David D. Rhode, janitor of the school, eloped with Helen Gardner, the principal. Janitor Rhode's wife succeeded to his job. Helen Gardner died of a fall downstairs in Scotts Bluff, Neb. Last week David Rhode returned to his wife and five children...