Word: gowen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, rode triumphantly up Main Street. Joseph Beddal was killed during the strike of 1902 trying to smuggle arms to strikebreakers besieged in the Reading station. In Muff Lawler's saloon on Coal Street, a young detective named McParlan, hired by President Gowen of the Reading, joined the Molly McGuires, later gave testimony that sent ten Mollies to their death. When Gowen committed suicide 13 years later, Shenandoah miners said it was remorse...
...when daily programs commenced. Neither of the rivals can claim priority except as a commercial station. Lee de Forest broadcast the voice of Enrico Caruso from the top of the Metropolitan Opera in 1908. Other pre-War radiocasters were Dr. Frank Conrad of Westinghouse and Robert Gowen of De Forest Radio Telephone & Telegraph...
...finally cited him to the Attorney General for failure to permit it to hold an orderly election. Now the case will be settled in court. If Mr. Weir wins it will be a sad setback for Senator Wagner. Budd Manufacturing. Next most vexing case to Senator Wagner concerns Edward Gowen Budd, Philadelphia manufacturer who built up a big business in all-steel automobile bodies and now is be- ginning to make stainless steel streamlined trains. Last November 1,300 of his workers went on strike charging that the company was trying to prevent the A. F. of L. from organizing...
...Ellis, president of Steel's research subsidiary, Universal Exploration Co. Last fortnight Eugene Jackson Buffington, president, since the resignation of the late Plunger John Warne Gates in 1899, of Illinois Steel Co. (biggest U. S. Steel subsidiary in the Chicago district), stepped aside for his vice president, George Gowen Thorp. Observers marked their retirement as milestones in Chairman Taylor's determined policy to put fresh metal in Steel's key jobs...