Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long time ago in Newton, Iowa, old Fred Maytag, who died in 1937, dedicated a concrete mausoleum to the glory and preservation of dead Maytags. Last week, Chicago Newshawk Robert J. Casey reported from Newton that Maytags now molder in common dust, Iowa winters having weathered away the monumental box. Concluded philosophical Reporter Casey: "Maybe there is something significant about that." Certainly the creator of the Maytag washing machine would not have understood the peace that returned last week to his "City of 12,000 Friendly Folks." C. I. O. workers in the Maytag plant took...
...guard. The Governor simultaneously weaseled out of his role as a States' Rights champion (TIME, Aug. 8). He amended his order forbidding NLRB to continue its Maytag inquiry anywhere in "the military district of Iowa," allowed the hearings to reopen at Des Moines, 30-odd miles from troubled Newton...
Most enthusiastic signature-collector of all was one Irving ("Fig") Newton, of Los Angeles. Boyish-looking Fig Newton, Cherokee-blooded and a onetime vaudevillian, promoted seven separate petitions, ranging from a Sunday closing blue law to freedom for Political Prisoner Tom Mooney. Most interesting Newton proposal was a $100-a-month pension for the needy blind and disabled to be financed by a State-run lottery. Chairman of the Lottery Board, at $10,000 a year, would be Irving ("Fig") Newton...
...Roosevelt agency which has no cash donations with which to smooth the path of Federal domination over State Governments is NLRB. Last week, Iowa's Governor Nelson G. Kraschel and NLRB collided in a test of State v. expanding U. S. sovereignty. In paternalized Newton, where C. I. 6. employes of The Maytag Co. are striking against a pay cut (TIME, July 25), Governor Kraschel had declared martial law, closed the recently reopened Maytag plant. Reason: Maytag rejected a settlement proposed by Kraschel arbitrators, started the plant against the Governor's wishes, precipitated fighting between non-union...
Said Chamber of Commerce President Frank Drake: "Newton is not big enough for The Maytag Co. and the C. I. O. The businessmen have decided they'd rather have The Maytag Co." For standing up for the strikers, Congregational Pastor E. A. Remige was asked to resign, did so last week, saying: "I have simply maintained there are two sides . . . but one can't say that in Newton without getting into trouble." For contempt of court in connection with an injunction restricting picketing, the union's young (27) international president, James B. Carey, and two other officials...