Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your report on the row at Des Moines Uni-versity contained more than one error. The shower you mentioned was limited to stones and eggs, but what eggs! Many of them hatched as they sailed through business office windows at Dr. T. T. Shields, University board president, and Miss Edith Rebman, board secretary. (Not treasurer...
...textile workers in the Bemberg & Glantzoff artificial silk mills at Elizabethton had dragged its way through six unhappy weeks (TIME, May 27). The strike ended when President Arthur Mothwurf of the mills agreed to take back striking workers, discuss their grievances, appoint a new personnel director. Peacemaker: Miss Anna Weinstock, 28, conciliator from the U. S. Department of Labor...
Dissatisfaction among his directors in New York at the mill's daily loss of some $40,000, due to the strike, was said to have put Dr. Mothwurf in a peace-making mood. Incognito, Miss Weinstock went to Elizabethton, secretly called upon Dr. Mothwurf, bargained for terms, induced the strike leaders to accept them, harangued the strikers themselves...
...mansion of the dread Chang Kai Chang, the Hon. Nancy and "Chinese" O'Neill nearly meet their doom. At the last moment the adventurous Celt obtains a Colt, takes a pot shot at the munition-laden ships of Chang Kai Chang?"Master of the China Sea." He does not miss. He embraces the Hon. Nancy during a thunderous holocaust which signals the utter destruction of all their enemies...
...Radcliffe had grown to be a college of nearly 800 students. It had become a centre for graduate study. Its physical equipment had been gradually enlarged. A full-time president had therefore become necessary, and the associates appointed Miss Ada Louise Comstock, then Dean of Smith College, to direct the administration. Miss Comstock had previously been Dean of Women at the University of Minnesota, which she had attended as an undergraduate, and had been Dean at Smith, of which she was a graduate, from...