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Great is the name of Maytag in Jasper County, Ia. In Newton, the county seat, is Maytag Co's 14-acre plant, where last year some 1,500 workers turned out $16,984,966.28 worth of Maytag washing machines. In Newton, too, is many another reason why the memory of the late Frederick Louis Maytag still is green. Newton's 11,500 residents get their water from a Maytag-built system, their electricity from a plant which he established. They play in a $450,000 Maytag park, have a $1,000,000, air-cooled Maytag hotel, office...
...these circumstances, Son Elmer Henry Maytag, president of the company, might have expected to escape labor trouble. But another name is also great in Jasper County. John Llewellyn Lewis was born 50 miles southwest of Newton 58 years ago, has in Jasper County much strength and one of the oldest locals of his United Mine Workers. So last year beneficent Maytag, caught in the union wash, signed a contract with C. I. O.'s United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America...
Died. Frederick Louis Maytag, 79, world's greatest washing-machine maker, father of Maytag Co.'s President Elmer Henry and onetime President Lewis Bergman; in Los Angeles. An Illinois-born farm boy, he first sold farm tools, lumber and threshing machines, lost $100,000 in railroading. $300,000 in motormaking and $1,000,000 in Maytag Co. before he began making his fortune...
...bull. Other leaders of the industry who get pleasure and relaxation as well as a sense of service to agriculture through their Hoistem breeding efforts are Colonel H. F du Pont of Delaware; Colonel Fred Pabst of Milwaukee-George Rasmussen of National Tea: E. H. Maytag of washing-machine fame: F. E. Murphy of the Minneapolis Tribune; Governor Lowden of Illinois; T.B. Macaulay of the Sun Life in Canada; Ogden Mills, Owen D. Young, Daniel Willard. . . . M. S. PRESCOTT...
...Wrong Maytag...