Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group in the world, the oldest organized charity in the U. S., the Prison Society last week celebrated its 150th birthday with vesper services at Old Christ Church, with Bishop Francis Marion Taitt representing the Episcopal Church, President Ernst Philip Píatteicher the Lutheran Ministerium, Secretary William B. Harvey the Orthodox Friends...
...thoroughly accustomed to the idea and practice of unionism. When Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and its U. R. W. employes came to an impasse over exclusive bargaining recognition early last March, both sides behaved calmly. Instead of sitting down, the unionists peacefully walked out. Instead of hiring strikebreakers, grizzled Harvey Firestone quietly shut down his plants. Akron remained a rock in the seething Labor sea during the eight weeks of negotiations which followed. There was no violence by 11,000 idle workers, no alarmist shouting by employers or press...
...public registration of both employer and employe groups negotiating labor agreements; 8) definition of ''unlawful labor practices" under the Wagner Act; 9) establishment of the responsibility of Labor. Elected president of the Chamber and charged with pressing these points on Congress was 61-year-old George Harvey Davis, president of Davis-Noland-Merrill Grain Co. of Kansas City. If he wore octagonal glasses, stocky, brown-eyed, greying President Davis might be mistaken for his good friend Alfred Mossman Landon. Said he: "My only interest is to make the Chamber a super business organization with a united front...
Aside from this race, it looks like comparatively smooth sailing for Crimson boats. The Freshmen from Columbia are not very strong, and Harvey Love's fast improving outfit should be able to set them back by about a length...
...forgotten was the private grudge fight between the Reich and New York's peppery little Mayor LaGuardia. With great disregard of time & space, the Berlin press picked Borough President George U. Harvey of Queens to be its candidate this autumn for Mayor of New York. All but annihilating Mr. Harvey's chances before the race began, Berlin newspapers solemnly declared: "If he is elected Mayor, Mr. Harvey has promised to eradicate Communists from New York in two weeks, with rubber hoses." In many ways Adolf Hitler's toughest opponent remained the Catholic Church...