Word: group
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Polite excitement tingled in the bosoms of a group of smiling ladies and gentlemen in Cleveland one night last week as they gathered in the smart offices of their city manager, William Rowland Hopkins. That day 97,000 Cleveland voters had chosen between city management and a return to the old mayor-and-ward-politics system. Manager Hopkins and friends were receiving election returns. Manager Hopkins was winning. A little moved by his success, he strolled to an open window, gazed long at a bright moon. The tight lines of his face relaxed. Coughing for attention, he spoke in blank...
They discussed, drafted and signed, he declared, "a secret treaty establishing a military unity between the 'Little Entente' nations, thus raising the effective status of the group to the rank of a Great Power...
Even more startling was a resolution adopted by the General Confederation of Mexican Workers, a potent radical labor group. Denouncing "restrictions on the right to strike and dangers to workmen in the so-called 'Labor' code," the confederation resolved "to exhort all affiliated labor groups throughout the country to order partial stoppages of work and finally a general strike if Senor Fortes Gil's project is insisted...
...speech of President Lowell, one-time professor of government, exalted a Boston Globe reporter, who wrote: "Pres. Lowell, when he rose to speak, was the recipient of as fine a spontaneously bestowed honor as he is ever likely to receive. Rising to speak before a group of men great in a field of which he has comparatively no knowledge, every one in the house rose with him. This is a custom at all Harvard gatherings, but the percentage of Harvard men in last night's audience was small, as by some magnet attracted, the audience rose to its feet...
...Goods. United Dry Goods Corp. was founded to unite a group of wholesale dry goods concerns, including Finch Van Slyke & McConville of St. Paul; Watts, Ritter of Huntington (W. Va.); Walton N. Moore of San Francisco; Arbuthnot, Stephenson of Pittsburgh; A. Krolik of Detroit. Assets in this merger total $25,000,000. Its purpose: to combat chain stores and others buying directly from the manufacturer by forming a chain of middlemen. Possible future additions to the merger: Ely & Walker of St. Louis; Carson, Pirie, Scott of Chicago; Hibben, Hollweg of Indianapolis; Perkins of Dallas...