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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bedraggled group of Gastonia, N. C., strikers appeared in Washington to tell their grievances. They were snubbed by the National Women's Trade Union League on the ground that they were not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Fourteen-year-old Binnie Green, who weighs 69 pounds, told of getting $4.95 for 60 hours' work a week in the mills. North Carolina's ponderous Senator Overman patted her on the head, and said: "This child ought to be in school." Then he backed away into the Senate, there to renew his warnings of Communistic agitation...
...same morning at Cornish, N. H., there was a kerosene explosion in a one-room cabin: two young mothers, three infants and the cabin were incinerated; an adolescent youth escaped, gravely burned...
Jersey City, N. J., once a little aristocrat among U. S. cities, now a sooty relic teeming with foreign blood, low politics and eager business men whose affairs are deeply complicated by those politics, is governed by a board of five Directors elected by the People. The Director of Public Affairs is elected Mayor by his fellow Directors. For many a tumultuous week, Jersey City voters have been exhorted to change Directors. A Reform-Fusion organization has been fighting bitterly to turn out Frank L. Hague, Tsar of the North Jersey democracy, vice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, three...
...promised to go into effect this summer. T. A. T. is the hook-up of the Pennsylvania and Santa Fe railroads with planes. Passengers will take an overnight train from New York to Columbus, Ohio. Thence they will go by air to Waynoka, Okla. From Waynoka to Clovis, N. M. is a one-night train ride. Thence planes go to Los Angeles and San Francisco...
Died. Edward Payson Weston 90, of Brooklyn, N. Y., able pedestrian; in Brooklyn. His U. S. records: Boston to Washington, D. C., 443 mi., 208 hrs.; Portland, Me., to Chicago, 1,345 mi., 25 days; Manhattan to San Francisco, 3,500 mi., 104 days (aged 71); Santa Monica, Calif., to Manhattan, 3,500 mi., 77 days (aged 72). In a race in England he walked 550 mi. in 141 hrs., left his nearest competitor 100 mi. behind...