Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impotent Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, on whose bones John Lewis is attempting to put robust flesh, was one of the strong est unions in the land. As its local's three-year contract with great Carnegie Steel Co. in Homestead, Pa., seven miles below Pittsburgh, drew toward a close, the company proposed that the new contract include a wage cut. The union refused. Famed for his humanitarian statements on the subject of Labor's rights, Andrew Carnegie skipped off to Scotland, left his mills in charge of hardbitten, union-hating Henry Clay Frick...
...Chicago Symphony, provided they would permit her to pass upon the list of conductors. With Banker Willoughby George Walling as chairman, the group quickly raised $30,000 in guarantees. Since the Chicago Symphony was also scheduled for free concerts in Grant Park, sponsored by the City and the local Federation of Musicians, the Ravinia organizers had to be content with four concerts over each of five weekends during the summer. With moderate prices they had a good advance sale when the first concert began last week...
...spry, bearded Swiss gave modern Russian music many a first performance when he played for the old Diaghilev Ballet, has since guest-conducted in Europe and South America. Other Ravinia conductors who passed muster with Mrs. Eckstein were to be Willem van Hoogstraten. Hans Lange, Werner Janssen and three local men- Henry Weber, Rudolph Ganz, Isaac Van Grove. Whatever ghosts of old operatic voices lingered in the Ravinia rafters, Conductor Ansermet drowned them out with Wagner, Stravinsky, Liszt, Berlioz before taking a plane to California to open the agreeable summer concerts of the Hollywood Bowl...
...Howard has jettisoned dailies in Baltimore, Sacramento, Terre Haute, Des Moines and Dallas. Last week new Board Chairman William Waller Hawkins lopped the Youngstown (Ohio) Telegram off the Scripps-Howard chain. Founded in 1851, bought by Scripps-Howard in 1922, ailing since 1929, the Telegram was devoured by its local opposition, the stout old Youngstown Vindicator, left the city with one fat newspaper called The Youngstown Vindicator and The Youngstown Telegram...
From Toad Lane in the Lancashire textile city of Rochdale dates not only the amazing growth of British co-operation but all modern consumer cooperation. There in 1844 amid the energetic jeering of local shopkeepers a little co-operative store was opened with a stock of flour, butter, sugar and oatmeal. The society's ?28 capital had been put in by its 28 members, most of whom were weavers. What these cooperators lacked in capital was more than made up in vision, for within twelve years their society was doing a $100,000 annual business, and the so-called...