Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frederic Hood, president of the Hood Rubber Co., will speak at a meeting of the Engineering School Society in Peirce Hall on Thursday, December 20. His subject will be developed on the point of view of a labor leader...
This talk will be of special interest to men concentrating in economics and to members of the Business School, owing to the fact that Mr. Hood is a great authority on all problems of labor employment and personnel. He is one of the few men to have successfully employed non-union men exclusively throughout this period of labor troubles. He believes absolutely in non-union labor and refuses to have a labor leader dictate his own business policy...
Under the command of Vice Admiral Sir Frederick L. Field, a special service squadron of the Royal Navy composed of the battle cruisers Hood and Repulse and the light cruisers Delhi, Dauntless, Dragon and Danae, sailed from Plymouth for a trip around the world that is to last 307 days. The object of the trip was said to be to show the ships in some of the chief ports of the Commonwealth...
...followed: Sierra Leone, Cape Town, where Christmas will be spent. Then the squadron will proceed to India, Sinapore, Australia and back north to Honolulu for Whitsuntide. After this the squadron will steam to Esquimalt, Vancouver and then south to San Francisco for Independence Day. This over, the Hood and Resolute will return via the Panama Canal to Plymouth, but the light cruisers will go to Callao, Peru, there to take place in the centenary celebration of the Peruvian Independence Day,* after which they will follow their big sisters home through the Panama Canal...
When Robin Hood rapped a wealthy miser on the pate with his quarter-staff and removed his pouch, he usually gave the money, or a large share of it, to the poor. It is much the same beneficient, kindly spirit which pervades the soul of the famous Polish bandit, Mucha. Nothing the dismal condition of his country's finances, he has made out an inventory of his year's "swag", and sent the list plus the income tax upon the amount to the government...