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...silk strikers demanded: eight-hour day, five-day week, 40% wage increase. They complained that they were now worked 9½ to 14 hrs. per day for a wage that began at $12 per week. Most of the operators of Paterson's silk mills, large & small, almost welcomed the strike as an excuse to shut down their plants...
...Kettle. Stolen bases--Darling, Meighen. Left on bases--Harvard 10, Andover 4. Bases on balls--off Strong 4, off DeGive 2, off Cates 4. Struck out--by Strong 4, by Cates 5. Passed balls--O'Neil. Wild pitches--DeGive 2. Losing pitcher--DeGive. Umpire--Gardella. Time of game--2 hrs...
...taught school, went on chautauqua circuits, made political friends. Aged 21, he married Anna M. Geisendorfer who bore him two sons, one daughter. (His son Cecil ("Stu"), chief road man for Texas Co., last summer set a New York-Los Angeles round trip automobile record of 141 hrs. in a Buick.) He served as president of Oregon State Normal School (1888-91), president of Willamette University (1893-1902). Studying law on the side, he was admitted to the bar in 1894. By 1906 he had sufficiently cultivated his district to get himself elected to Congress where he has served continuously...
...importance of unemployment in this year's campaign has long been obvious. Republicans minimized the issue, guessed not more than 1,500,000 gainful workers were idle. Democratic guesses ran up to 5,000,000. Securing from the Census Bureau a fair approximation of the official figures 24 hrs. in advance of their release, Republican Senator Henry Drury Hatfield of West Virginia rushed it into print through the Republican National Committee, declaring: ''We at last have an accurate statement [which] brings into high light the malevolent character of statements made by Democratic Senators and leaders. . . . The effect...
...Lindberghs on Easter Sunday. Said he: "I am not interested in records. It was purely a business demonstration of the possibilities of an aerial pony express. With relays of pilots and fast planes at intermediate points ... I think a schedule of 13 to 15 hrs. could be maintained. . . . The nonstop flight is of no value. Why load up with a lot of gas? ... I didn't really have the ship 'wide open'; but I don't think the flight can be made much faster...