Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mixed in with the final flood of departmental work there were, of course, many political conferences and duties. There was the notification speech, for delivery in Palo Alto on August 11, to be completed. Nominee Hoover consulted men like Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor and President Lewis T. Taber of the National Grange to make sure he would say just the right things on August...
Advisory Chairman-Peter Gollet Gerry, the wealthy well-born Harvard-bred hound-riding U. S. Senator from Rhode Island who upset traditional Republican calculations in his state as a young man (1916-he is now 48) and has since continued popular with his state's large labor vote...
Last week, Howard Elliott died. He lived just long enough to see the N.Y., N. H. & H. pay a dividend on its common stock, the first in 15 years, a direct result of his four years (1913-17) of reorganization. But the most tangible evidence of his labor lies in the Northwest. First as president, then as chairman of the board of the Northern Pacific, he watched, encouraged, hastened the development of a vast territory...
Alabama was the last of the States to abolish the leasing of convict labor. Agitation for the reform began in 1915 but progressed slowly in the State whose senior Senator is James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin. In 1923 the Alabama Legislature passed the reform law. Not until last year and this, under Governor Bibb Graves. were the State's penal facilities built up to accommodate all the State's prisoners...
Died. Bernard A. Larger, 63, Labor leader, close associate of the late Samuel Gompers, onetime president and for 24 years secretary-treasurer of the United Garment Workers; of heart disease; in Coney Island...