Word: nash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nash-Kelvinator Corp. fired 300 sit downers who struck for $1 instead of 91 ½? an hour, paralyzed interlocking Nash auto plants which employ 3,500 at Kenosha and Milwaukee...
...youth was fighting the Chicago traction interests."* Some professors at the University of Chicago, the city's schoolteachers, various racial groups, the Lawyers' Guild, social workers like Miss Charlotte Carr, head of Hull House, were foremost in the draft-Ickes drive. They want to smash the celebrated Nash-Kelly machine. If New York City smashed Tammany with a Fusion ticket led by Fiorello LaGuardia, why couldn't Chicago do likewise under an old Bull-Mooser, a New Dealer, a grand-scale benefactor of Chicago like Harold Ickes? From his PWA the city has received...
...grueling work, and the stage, even in vasty, gusty Chicago, would be small and local compared to the Interior and PWA. Getting the nomination in February's primary might not be easy, either. State's Attorney Tom Courtney, able and fearless, is burning to be the Nash-Kelly smasher...
...discontent of farmers over AAA's failure to elevate corn and wheat prices was a dominant election factor in the Midwest. In Indiana the McNutt machine behind Senator Van Nuys and in Illinois the Horner machine, allied for the emergency with the Chicago juggernaut of Mayor Kelly & Boss Nash behind Representative Scott Lucas, overrode farmer discontent. In Nebraska only Governor Cochran, who publicized his State's economy and low taxes, survived a Republican sweep. In Iowa, Governor Kraschel was pitchforked out by 40,000 votes, mostly corn farmers'. In Kansas, the sentiment of wheat farmers was even...
...General Motors Acceptance Corp. Commercial Credit Co. (Chrysler), Commercial Investment Trust (Nash, Hudson, Studebaker), and C. I. T.'s subsidiary, Universal Credit Corp. (Ford...