Word: lennihan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike, voted to shut up shop (TIME, Jan. 28). Last week Southbridge was jubilant once more. The cloth designers had been called back to prepare their patterns for autumn. That could mean only one thing: the mill was not to close. That day Hamilton Woolen's President Richard Lennihan announced that arrangements had been made to sell the company to U. S. Bunting Co. of Lowell, operated by J. P. Stevens & Co., big highly-respected New York commission merchants. Hamilton's 1,000 workers, most of whom returned to the mill temporarily last month to complete orders...
...deep silence a vote was taken. The result was 26,589-to-815 in favor of liquidating the business of the company, distributing its assets among the stockholders. No one moved or spoke when the announcement was made. Then President Lennihan rose to assure those present that the directors would do their best to prevent a hasty sale of the plant, would try to dispose of it as a unit. That night nearly one-fifth of the people of Southbridge crawled into bed with nothing to look forward to but the dole...