Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corporations, treasurer of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, longtime president of the Boys' Club of New York, husband of smart, vivacious Repealist Pauline Morton Sabin; of cerebral hemorrhage, after long illness; in Shinnecock Hills, L. I. His varied, steady-climbing banking career began when he, a flour mill clerk, was given a job by an Albany bank so he could pitch for its baseball team. France and Belgium decorated him for his Liberty Loan work. An ardent golfer, he was treasurer of the U. S. Golf Association...
There were strikes all over the country. Fifteen were shot, one killed when picketers and steelworkers clashed at Ambridge, Pa. Silk mill strikers marched 10,000 strong in Paterson. N.. J. Corset-makers and truck drivers struck in Manhattan. Grape pickers struck in Lodi. Calif. A strike of 10,000 machine tool and diemakers was on in Detroit. In Pennsylvania, 55,000 coal miners were still out (see p. 12). Philadelphia bakers left their ovens. Chairman Wagner of the National Labor Board barely averted a strike by 650 commercial air pilots. A dozen striking window washers pulled...
Shark-shaped Cuba sizzled last week from tip to tip. Bushwhacking insurrestos raided scores of towns. Near Banes on the northeast coast insurgent workers seized a sugar mill largely owned by Vincent Astor and Percy A. Rockefeller, shut up mill executives, wives and children in their quarters, cut off electricity and water. Fifteen sugar mills in Oriente province, mostly U. S.-owned, had been seized by rampaging Cuban proletarians. In Santiago de Cuba soldiers, miners and Communist agitators heckled Manager Fred Northcross of Bethlehem Steel's Daiquiri Mines until he shouted: "We are closing down-permanently!" In Havana harassed...
Throughout Cuba the labor unions, released after eight years' suppression, were agitating among the unorganized sugar-mill and cane field workers of the interior, who get an average wage of 20? a day. Demanding an increase to 50? a day, the labor leaders called strikes all through the interior, began to recruit by force and intimidation. Violence flared up in other Cuban industries...
...David Ricardo retired from the London Stock Exchange in 1797 with a fat fortune, devoted himself to economics, wrote Essay on the Influence of a Low Price of Corn on the Profits of Stock, is chiefly famed for transmitting Adam Smith's laisscz fairc philosophy to John Stuart Mill...