Word: hudsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hoping to encourage interest in essay work and to increase the activity of the Harvard Chapter, the Committee has chosen a Faculty committee consisting of George H. Chase '96, John E. Hudson, Professor of Archaeology and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Francis O. Matthiessen, assistant professor of History and Literature, and Lawrence J. Henderson '98, Senior Fellow and professor of Biological Chemistry, which will make the choice of the winning essay. It is expected that the Committee will reach its decision about June...
...voted down the agreement. Meantime the Board had shuttled back to Detroit where trouble had brewed during its absence. A strike for a general wage increase in the plants of Motor Products Corp. (maker of windshield frames, instrument panels, window reveals et al. for Chrysler, Dodge, De Soto, Plymouth, Hudson, Ford) had put 5,600 men out of work. The Wolman Board proposed a settlement. The strikers promptly rejected it, tore up the proposed peace terms. Short of parts, Hudson Motors shut down, temporarily threw 18,000 men out of work, was able finally to open shop again when...
...agreed to return to work tomorrow morning, thus ending a strike which today caused a shutdown at the Hudson Motor Company
...Vincent Astor was, in his way, as socially progressive as the young upstate legislator from Hyde Park who was fighting Tammany at Albany. He gave-and still gives-boating excursions up the Hudson to poor women & children. He even ventured far enough into politics to hold down a desk in New York City's Fusion campaign headquarters when John Purroy Mitchel successfully ran for mayor in 1913. But he soon discovered that he had no flair for politics. He married Helen Dinsmore Huntington-a member of another county family-and settled down to his real estate business...
Leader of the opposition is Floyd Leslie Carlisle, not only board chairman of Consolidated Gas Co., which serves some 8,000,000 persons in & around New York City, but also of Niagara Hudson Power Corp., which serves nearly one-half the rest of the state. Having personally led the fight in the open committee hearings in Albany, Utilitarian Carlisle last week hopped to a microphone to reply to Governor Lehman's appeal for support. Mr. Carlisle attacked the Constitutionality of the 5% emergency rate bill, defended the holding company and challenged, as all good power men do, the economics...