Word: middletowners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presidents Brown has had since 1764 were all Baptist ministers. A pious Methodist layman, big, bespectacled Educator Wriston was born in Laramie, Wyo., 47 years ago, went to Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), got a Ph.D. in History at Harvard, returned to teach at Wesleyan. During the War he had a desk job with the Connecticut State Council of Defense, became a full professor at Wesleyan before being called to Lawrence...
...Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) President James Lukens McConaughy took a less friendly view of Publisher Hearst. Declared he: "Leaders like Governor Curley [of Massachusetts] and publicists like Mr. Hearst are today the greatest menaces to freedom in the academic world. . . . The biggest threat to such freedom is bigotry, unfairly endeavoring to impose our own views on others and denying", to those who differ from us, honesty and sincerity...
Called last month, the strike involved 6,500 workers in six Remington-Rand plants-Ilion, Tonawanda and Syracuse, N. Y., Marietta and Norwood, Ohio and Middletown, Conn. By last week the strike had got down to scabs, scuffles, professional strikebreakers and pitched battles with police. Though President Rand considered it largely the work of Communists, the affair apparently originated last year when the company bought a factory in Elmira...
Another city threatened by Mr. Rand was Middletown, Conn., where 900 struck sympathetically. There, plant officials also got machinery ready for shipment. Middletown's Mayor Leo Santangelo received a telegram from President Rand's assistant: "Because you have failed to give protection to honest workers . . . and have allowed radicals to coerce and intimidate them . . . the company has decided that Middletown is not a suitable community in which to carry on operations...
...Heretofore the company has manufactured in the U. S. and Canada in 18 separate and distinct manufacturing plants. . . . When the unification of manufacturing facilities has been completed the company will have 15 manufacturing units. . . . The dismantling of the Syracuse, Middletown, Conn., and Norwood, Ohio, plants, already well under way, is expected to be completed in about three weeks. . . . The company will be able to greatly increase its manufacturing efficiency by this consolidating of plants. The company announces the policy of moving desirable experienced employes at the company's expense to new locations to which their work has been transferred...