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Dates: during 1930-1939
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International Ladies' Garment Workers Union is proud of having the biggest local (New York 89: 42,138 members) of any U. S. labor union. By last week I. L. G. W. U. had something else to be proud of. While the Broadway season continued to number more flops than successes, I. L. G. W. U.'s homemade show, Pins and Needles, had become a definite hit. Produced last month by Labor Stage, Inc. as a weekend venture, the show had been so jammed since then that Labor Stage announced last week that it would present the show every...
...Land: As darkness settled down on the little Scots hamlet of Castlecary late one afternoon last week, the local train from Dundee pulled into the London & North Eastern Railway station. Around it swirled a December blizzard that blotted out the lights of the village, stalled the train. Without a second's warning the mile-a-minute Edinburgh-Glasgow express following the local crashed into it. Rescuers, lighted by bonfires made of debris from shattered wooden coaches, took out 91 injured, 35 dead-Britain's worst rail-road disaster in two decades...
...costs about $20,000 a year (met by private contributions) to run Junior Programs, Inc. A company of artists gets from $200 to $400 for a performance. Local parent-teacher associations, boards of education or other groups sponsor the performances, put them on in schools or rented halls. All this makes it possible to give children top-rank musical and dramatic shows at 10¢ to 25?. The companies play an average of five times a week, frequently to overflow audiences. In Gallipolis, Ohio (pop. 7,100) a ballet drew 1,500 children from all the countryside. In Hartford...
...Massengill, however, rallied friends around him. The local Chamber of Commerce declared: "It is only fair that the public be advised that the S. E. Massengill Company has been in business 40 or more years. That it has several handsome buildings well equipped with laboratory facilities, employs more than 200 people at Bristol including six graduate pharmaceutical chemists and other trained assistants. Dr. Massengill holds an M. D. degree, and is directly in charge of the plant. This plant manufactures drugs for human consumption which are used by many of the largest and best hospitals and physicians throughout the country...
...local medical society likewise passed a resolution saying that its members ". . . deeply regret the unfortunate occurrence and the unfavorable publicity to which the S. E. Massengill Company has recently been subjected and extend to Dr. Massengill and his employes a sincere vote of confidence in their integrity and honesty towards the medical profession and to the public and our assurance of our continued complete confidence in his products...