Word: hershey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part interest in the school in 1916 and managed it with distinction for 20 years. When Dr. Ament died last year, National Park had a glamorous list of alumnae including Cinemactress Margaret Lindsay, Soprano Marion Claire, Irene Castle McLaughlin, the daughters of Walter P. Chrysler and Milton Snavely Hershey. Last fortnight his widow, Mrs. Teresa Catherine Ament, put National Park into the hands of an equally remarkable midwestern educator, Dr. Roy Tasco Davis, who simultaneously resigned as public relations director of Missouri's Stephens College...
...signed a new agreement with the C.I.O. group outlawing strikes for six months, providing for a vote to determine whether the United Chocolate Workers Union or the Loyal Workers Club shall represent the workers. Both claim approximately two-thirds of all employes. Left unchanged by the agreement: wages & hours; Hershey's discharge & disciplinary powers...
When Alfred P. Sloan Jr. estimated last fortnight that the great General Motors sit-down had cost the "national economy" hundreds of millions of dollars, the average citizen shrugged and went on about his business. But the Hershey Sit-Downers were sitting squarely on the pocketbooks of neighboring farmers who sell the chocolate company some $14,000 worth of milk per day. Stung to action, the deprived dairymen last week made a milestone in the history of the Sit-Down...
...morning automobiles and buggies poured into Hershey bringing outraged countryfolk, including many a bearded and bonneted Mennonite, to a mass meeting in the Hershey stadium. After speakers had whipped the crowd into a fury, making good use of the C. I. O. banner which strikers had raised above the U. S. flag over the factory, somebody began to boom through a loudspeaker: "Let's go to the factory!" With a roar some 3,000 farmers and non-union workers seized clubs, whips knives, and banners labeled DOWN WITH THE C. I. O., swarmed down Chocolate Avenue past weeping...
While Sit-Down critics throughout the land observed with ill-concealed satisfaction that lawlessness breeds lawlessness, Pennsylvania's New Dealing Governor Earle started an investigation, cried: "The bloodshed at the Hershey plant was a disgrace to the Commonwealth. The blame lies directly on the sheriff of the county. . . . The State police will not be used to suppress union labor...