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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...L. measure is retroactive, nullifying all existing injunctions which contravene its provisions. Famed injunctions it would set aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Labor Is Free | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...Last year the A. F. of L. offered $1,000 in prizes in a competition for designs for a $120,000 memorial to the late great Samuel Gompers. Congress has already donated a site on Washington's Massachusetts Ave. hard by the A. F. of L. building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Labor Is Free | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Clyde Reed (alias Arthur L. Barrett), 30, 6 ft., slender, brown eyes and hair, wanted for highway robbery. He escaped from officers at Kansas City, from a Knoxville, Tenn., jail and from the Tennessee penitentiary. Warning: "Desperate criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Badly Wanted' | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...Baker valve gear, a Chicago K45 lubricator, a radial stay type firebox. With a total heating and superheating surface of 5,450.9 sq. ft. this engine developed a tractive effort of 59,800 Ib. While 60 different engine crews were operating No. 4113 to make the record, David L. Forsythe, Frisco's equipment foreman, rode every mile. Every five days he would leave his smooth-breathing charge, go back to the caboose, snatch eight hours' sleep. Now 65, Foreman Forsythe began with the Frisco at 14, was a "hoghead" (engineer) for 41 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Chuffer | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Louis Bamberger, 74, founder of L. Bamberger & Co., Newark department store lately bought out by Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. (TIME, July 8), last week announced he would retire and made a "personal gift" of $1,000,000 to be divided among 300 of his oldest, most faithful employes. Said he: "Youth counts in business today. I may appear young, but I know better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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