Word: hershey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much the same reasons that farmer? around Hershey, Pa. ejected Hershey Chocolate Corp. sit-downers last year (TIME, April 19, 1937), the Wisconsin farmers were concerned lest the creamery pay less for their milk if it had to pay more for labor. They forced seven union employes to quit, ordered 15 others to sign a pledge: "I hereby agree not to join any organization bordering on or pertaining to labor unions." Vexed, NLRB's Wisconsin Regional Director Nathaniel S. Clark vowed he would not be "buffaloed by a bunch of farmers," rooted out a Wagner Act section which makes...
...refused to admit it to membership again. Subsequent operations were rarely successful and the firm got deeper & deeper in the hole, claimed to be engaged in such bizarre business as buying pistols and rifles for British and Chinese syndicates, staved off creditors with talk that Milton Snavely Hershey, the chocolate magnate, was about to give it the job of liquidating a $5,00,000 trust fund...
...Henry Picard, Hershey, Pa. professional, the annual Masters' Golf Tournament on Bobby Jones's tough home course in Augusta, Ga., with 285 strokes, three under par. Bobby Jones took 297 strokes and 15th place, was so encouraged by his comeback (last year he was 30th) that he said he might come out of retirement to enter the National Open in Denver in June if he was not required to play through qualifying trials...
...exhibition will be hung by Samuel Hershey and will include the work of Parker Perkins, Aldino T. Hibbert, Henrik and Clair Twanialk, and others...
Solemn young Byron Nelson of Reading, Pa.: the $12,000 Belmont Open, world's richest tournament for professional golfers; defeating his neighbor, Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa. in the final, 5 & 4; in a driving rainstorm; at Belmont. Mass. Runner-up Picard's $2,000 share of the purse upped his season's winnings to $9,916, second to top money-winner Harry Cooper of Chicago who has accumulated $12,973. Nelson's winning share, $3,000, put him in fifth place...