Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Textile mills in the Carolinas run all night. After sunrise, the mill siren gives a blast to warn the day workers throughout the village that it soon will be time to go to work...
...began to make a speech at the mill gates. He and several deputies had been up all night, warned by the mill officials of impending trouble. Across the street in front of the postoffice was a crowd of night shift workers bent on persuading the day shift not to go to work. The picketers were union people, men, women and children, members of United Textile Workers (subsidiary of the A. F. of L.). They had heard that, as the result of a strike last summer (TIME, Sept. 9), the company was transferring all union workers to the night shift. Then...
...Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Now, said the President, it could be told: he and Prime Minister MacDonald had agreed to have the latter issue invitations to France, Italy and Japan to discuss naval reductions with Britain and the U. S. in London on Jan. 20. The invitations would go out on the morrow (see p. 27). Like most momentous news it was very simple. There was nothing more to say - yet - about the historic "conversations." So the President helped the world press out a bit by telling Secretary Akerson that the autumn foliage in the mountains was brilliant, beautiful...
Senator Allen, publicity chief of the Hoover campaign, "told me I ought to go out and make Hoover campaign speeches," revealed Shearer. Retorted the Senator: "I wanted to get rid of you around publicity headquarters...
...have been to Chicago and I have talked to all the men I could meet. Today's game will be close; it will go into extra innings; the auspices all point that way. I have found trouble in reading the omens accurately; it is always so with close games, and we are all liable to be wrong. The probable score will be 6 to 5 in favor of the Cubs. It seems to be so written...