Word: keymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three million New York Straphangers hung as usual last week. The subway strike of some 700 "keymen" (motormen and switchmen) had practically failed. Herman A. Metz, one of the three public representatives of the Interborough directorate, refused to recognize the strikers' "outlaw union." The "union" leaders, Herman A. Metz, Harry Bark, Joseph Phelan refused to return on any other basis. Meantime, the I. R. T., bearing in mind the famed Danbury Hatters case, brought suit against the strikers for 239,000 damages ("violation of contract.") Said noted jurist Samuel Untermeyer, "This is a silly and transparent gesture." Manhattan autocrats...
...Keymen have planned to assemble again next December at Williamsburg to dedicate a building whose cornerstone they laid last June (TIME, June 15), a memorial headquarters for the United Chapters of P. B. K. toward which the 40,000 living members have been contributing a million-dollar endowment fund. (Last week, Keyman John D. Rockefeller Jr., Brown '97, contributed...
Young college men and women failing to graduate in the top tenth of their classes (the P. B. K. qualification) should not, however, despair of attaining post-graduate eminence. Let them consider the following college graduates who are not Keymen: Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, J. Pierpont Morgan, Clarence Dillon, Sinclair Lewis, John Hays Hammond Jr., Arthur Curtiss James, William Allen White, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Albert C. Ritchie, Gifford Pinchot, Robert LaFollette,- Edwin Arlington Robinson...
...Keymen sailed up the river to West Point, where they went ashore and looked about them indulgently. Up and back they had conversation. Their talk ran upon the excellent idea it was not to minimize the importance of their Council meetings by holding them more frequently than once in three years; upon the sound reasoning that had led them to decide to push ahead with the fraternity's million-dollar endowment fund, of which at least $100,000 must be in hand by December, 1926, for the erection of a founders' memorial building at the College of William and Mary...
Immediately after the meeting, at 11.15 o'clock, the keymen will assemble for the procession to Sanders Theatre. In the absence of P. R. Chandler '21, First Marshal, Theodore Dunham '21 will act as First Marshal. With H. D. Smith '21, the Second Marshal, Dunham will march at the head of the procession. The line will form in double file, with the Junior eight at the head, followed by the Senior members and those of the other classes in reverse order of seniority. The undergraduate members are expected to wear caps and gowns. Led by trumpeters and drummers, the procession...