Word: larkins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the Dail Eireann (lower house). Four days after the pact was signed, the Opposition Fine Gael of William Cosgrave, who has now lost his chief difference with de Valera's party, joined with the Prime Minister's Fianna Fail supporters to vote approval. One diehard, James Larkin, Dublin Laborite, spoiled a unanimous vote. "The payment of $50,000,000 to Britain is a compromise," groused Laborite Larkin. In London, Prime Minister Chamberlain, busy last week with another neighbor, France (see p. 15), is expected this week to set in motion his machinery for parliamentary approval...
...Fair of 1893. Eastern conservatives turned the fair into a magnificent tour de force of neoclassic buildings, and for a quarter-century eclecticism held the stage in U. S. public architecture. Wright kept off the stage. In 1905 he produced, in protest, a well-lighted administration building for the Larkin Co. in Buffalo, severely without ornament, the first office building in the U. S. to use 1) metal-bound, plate-glass doors and windows, 2) all-metal furniture, 3) air conditioning, 4) magnesite as an architectural material...
...Folsom, Calif., where on Thanksgiving Day 1927, ten convicts and a guard were killed rioting, Warden Clarence A. Larkin of California's toughest State prison, was last fortnight interviewing inmates about parole applications. Suddenly seven of some 40 convicts in his office sprang out of line, bared knives and a dummy pistol. One demanded that Warden Larkin telephone the watch tower guards to hand down rifles to the inmates. Others covered two guards. In a room nearby, the warden's secretary, Jack Whalen, heard the commotion, recalled what Warden Larkin had told the prison staff...
From one rich U. S. family to another last week passed working control of the Virginian Railway, the 600-mi. model coal road built by the late Standard Oilman Henry Huttleston Rogers in the days of Roosevelt I (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). In Manhattan, Adrian Hoffman Larkin, Virginian Board Chairman and trustee of the Rogers estate, laconically announced that 75% of the Virginian's common stock had been sold to interests identified with Andrew William Mellon. The consideration, said Mr. Larkin, was in excess of $31,000,000. Actual purchaser was a group headed by Koppers Co., Eastern...
Insisting with laudable accuracy that most critics of the Douglas plan have little or no understanding of the basic Douglas conceptions, Mr. Larkin added: "Similarly the Alberta-Aberhart dividends-by-taxation program has been widely confused with the Douglas proposals...