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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HOLDEN New York, N...
...Around the corner of 13th and Irving streets, N. W. swing heavy blue double-decked buses. There they stop, to start up again with a splattering roar of the exhaust. At that corner stands the Friends Meeting House where President and Mrs. Hoover worship. So loud were the bus noises that the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia ordered the vehicles to take another route on Sunday mornings. Last Sunday the President worshipped in peace...
...efficiency and organization, a President and his staff need elbow room. Last week bids were received for enlarging the interior of the Stanford-White-designed executive offices. Low bidder ($15,225) was the N. P. Severin Co. of Chicago. The basement will be renovated as office and storage space. The West embankment will be cut away to the street to permit basement windows...
North Carolina. Gastonia, N. C., is named for William Gaston, onetime (1875-76) Massachusetts Governor. There the Manville-Jenckes Co., Pawtucket, R. I., operates the Loray Mills, producing yarn for cord tires. Six months ago the National Textile Workers Union began organizing in this and neighboring mills. Last week they came into the open, called a strike answered by 1,000 Loray workers. They demanded: a $20 minimum weekly wage, a 40-hour (five-day) week, abolition of the "stretch-out" system, a 50% cut in company rents and light rates, recognition of the union. The mill operators refused...
Seibold Pitcher Boston (N...