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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York to give his firemen an eight-hour day. But others were more significant, indicated that Labor might be getting its back up. Harshly condemned for "inhuman working conditions" and referred to as "a $700.- 000,000 outrage" was Six Companies, Inc., builder of the Hoover Dam where twelve workers collapsed and died in the Nevada heat last summer (TIME, Aug. 24). And although the convention, encouraged by Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania, longtime (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, turned its back on a Federal Dole, one Labor measure advocated...
Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., whose product mixes well with stiffer stuff, echoed Coca-Cola's story. Starting with 1927. the year Ontario went from Dry to Wet, the company's U. S. and Canadian per capita sales have compared as follows...
Lids Toro, president of Porto American Tobacco Co. since it was founded in 1899, resigned, also resigned as chairman of the company's two big subsidiaries, Congress Cigar Co. Inc. and Waitt & Bond, Inc. President James M. Porter of Congress was made president of Porto Rican, President William E. Waterman of Waitt & Bond was made chairman of Porto Rican-a new office. Porto Rican makes Ricoro, La Restina, Portina, El Toro and other cigars, also El Toro Cigarets which are mostly sold in Porto Rico. Congress makes La Palina Cigars; Waitt & Bond makes Blackstones...
Earnest Elmo Calkins, 63, famed advertising expert, retired as president of Calkins & Holden, Inc. ''because I have become so deaf that I cannot properly perform the duties of an advertising agent, the most important of which is contact with clients." Mr. Calkins won the Edward Bok gold medal in 1925 for distinguished personal service in advertising "in recognition of his pioneering efforts in raising the standards both of the planning and execution of advertising." His book, Consumer Engineering: A New Technique for Property, will be published this autumn and in future he will devote more time to writing...
...Combined circulation of Tower group: 1,330,000; of Modern group (exclusive of newsstand sales): 657,000. †Grand-Silver Stores Inc., McCrory Stores Corp., McClellan Stores, G. C. Murphy Co., Neisner Bros. Inc., J. J. Newberry...