Word: katonah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...content with having resigned his Presbyterian pastorate and gone to jail in the 1919 steel strike, the late William Mann Fincke* in 1921 gave his 53-acre estate in Katonah, N. Y., with its big colonial farmhouse, to found Brookwood Labor College, first labor college in the U. S. Miss Evelyn Preston, a tall, dimpled, onetime Junior Leaguer, now president of the League of Women Shoppers (a labor auxiliary) gave the college a $50,000 women.'s dormitory. Among its other liberal and wealthy angels was the Garland Fund...
...last week Tucker Smith was not in Katonah but Detroit, where since last summer he has been helping educate members of the United Automobile Workers Union. With U. S. labor unions enjoying their greatest prosperity, Chairman Julius Hochman of Brookwood's board of directors announced last week that Brookwood's doors had been closed, perhaps permanently. Not only was the college unable to raise its $30,000 budget for the coming year, but it had unpaid debts. Having survived Labor's poverty, Brookwood was killed by Labor's prosperity...
...well as C. I. O. unions supported Brookwood, these unions, conducting their own classes in industrial centres, had decided to abandon Brookwood until Labor united, made it Labor's "official" college. Meanwhile, no move will be made to sell the $115,000 Katonah estate...
...ahead of the times but behind the times is Professor Slichter's school for employers, for Labor has already provided itself on a much larger scale with schools for employes including Labor colleges (Brookwood, in Katonah, N. Y., Commonwealth, in Mena, Ark.). Many a C.I.O. union has recently established an educational department, which not only teaches workers Labor history but trains them in collective bargaining strategy, psychology, public speaking, influencing public opinion. Largest and oldest of such programs is that of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, directed by astute, British-born Mark Starr, which has 20,000 workers...
Month ago the Northern Westchester Bank of Katonah, N. Y. was stuck up. The robbers got away with $18,000. In Manhattan, Thomas Malley had registered a black Plymouth coupé, license 4Y-7607. That was the car in which a man had been making calls at the post office in Topeka. If he came back, the general delivery clerk was to give the tip-off to Agent Baker. On the third noon of Agent Baker's vigil, the clerk gave the signal...