Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength of magic words embedded in the National Recovery Act, U. S. Labor set out last month to unionize U. S. Industry. For the American Federation of Labor it was a golden opportunity, for big manufacturers a real crisis. First objective was Steel, that "open shop" fortress against which union labor had repeatedly smashed itself to bloody bits. Last week an A. F. of L. local was started in mighty U. S. Steel Corp.'s Gary plant with more to follow elsewhere...
...best platform diver in the U. S. from 1921 to 1928, tried to make a comeback. She hurt her wrists, neck and shoulders so badly preparing for the final that she had to withdraw but her younger sister, Mrs. Frances Meany Scofield, got second place, nearly seven points behind golden-haired Dorothy Poynton of Hollywood...
...since Goldman, Sachs floated Blue Ridge Corp. has a new stock issue been gobbled up the way one was last week. Through Manhattan's Lehman Brothers, Schenley Distillers (Golden Wedding Rye) sold 230,000 shares of its stock at $15 a share. Advertisements ("a matter of record only") had not even appeared before the stock was whipped up to $46 a share on a when-issued basis. ¶ Within 24 hours after Illinois had formally ratified the 21st Amendment last week, Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts, Ltd., potent Canadian liquor company (Canadian Club Rye), announced that it would build...
...Harvard newly initiated has not shown the proper discretion as regards unknowing summer school belles. On the opening day four girls noticing the strange odor of melon went sniffing around Stoughton Hall until they traced the source to a half-empty bottle of Golden Wedding Rye. The four indignant maidens hastily disposed of the offending liquid. Either the whiskey was poor or lese there is something rotten in Pembroke, or perhaps Brown does not coach its women...
...Francisco, the Summer Symphony was ready to open its eighth summer season with eight weekly concerts, the first under Conductor Henry Hadley and others under guest conductors including Richard Lert, Alfred Hertz, Fritz Reiner, Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Another development near San Francisco was the organization, just across the Golden Gate from the city, of the Marin County Musical Chest, financed by subscriptions averaging 25? from members of Marin County's mixed population of esthetes and Portuguese dairy farmers...