Word: l
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago workers were organized by A. F. of L. agents in the cotton mill of Marion Manufacturing Co., owned by Spinster Sallie Baldwin of Baltimore. When the union hands struck, the mill closed down. Unionization spread to the mills of the Clinchfield Co. which also shut down temporarily. When Clinchfield tried to reopen, strikers massed before the gates, manhandled the superintendent. Guardsmen were sent in to restore order. Mill owners commenced to eject union strikers from company houses...
...Charles Donnelly, head of Northern Pacific. Besides bankers of four States (including James E. Woodward, president of Metals Bank of Butte and Sam Stephenson, president of First National of Great Falls) the board will number leading industrialists. Among those already chosen are John D. Ryan, Cornelius F. Kelly, and L. O. Evans, respectively the chairman, president and general manager of Anaconda Copper Mining Co., gigantic producer and fabricator not only of copper, but zinc, lead, silver, gold, antimony, arsenic...
Department Store. When nearly two months ago R. H. Macy & Co. bought L. Bamberger & Co., great Newark department store (TIME, July 8), the price paid was not disclosed, was left to be inferred from Bamberger's earnings of $2,915,375 in 1928. Last week R. H. Macy filed application with the New York Stock Exchange to list 146.385 additional shares of stock. Of this number 69,210 shares (worth at the present market nearly $15,000,000) were given in part payment to the stockholders of L. Bamberger. The remaining 77,175 shares were offered...
...Negro named Zeke turns preacher and converts the girl, Chick, who got him in the game. She beats up his rival with a poker, saying. "Ain't no one goin' to stand in my path to glory." This is the best line in Hallelujah, but Zeke (Daniel L. Haynes) has other good ones in the sermon in which, dressed as a locomotive engineer, he describes the cannonball express to hell. Sometimes local color dams up the story, but mostly, in spite of the temptation of spirituals, it is under control. Vidor's skill as a picturemaker...
Laws. To draft a uniform aviation code to be adopted by all States, government representatives, legislators, lawyers and flyers met at Mineola, L. I., last week. Their preliminary recommendations included punishments for flying while drunk, reckless stunting, flying so low as to endanger persons on the ground, making too much noise with the motor, landing on and damaging private property. During the past year state legislatures entertained 250 heterogeneous bills on aviation. Of these 106 were enacted...