Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days later, with both sides standing pat, the 30-day deadline came & went. Out of A. F. of L. marched 1,100,000 members of United Mine Workers; Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Ladies' Garment Workers; United Textile Workers; Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers; Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers; Iron, Steel & Tin Workers; United Automobile Workers; United Rubber Workers; Flat Glass Workers...
...Kingdom of Norway's latest note to the British Empire, Oslo again demanded limitation of the annual whale-oil haul to 2,265,000 barrels, whereas British soap makers insist on 2,529,000. Even more vital, Norway claimed, is the need of fixing quotas for each expedition and preventing these quotas from being transferred or juggled from one expedition to another. Said the Norwegian note: "This is the only means of preventing the extermination of the whale...
Your Aug. 17 issue speaks of Joseph W. Bailey Jr. as "son of Texas' late great Senator." As Joe Sr. had to resign from the U. S. Senate because of his accepting money and favors from John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, I fail to see where he achieved any greatness. To me he ranks with Jim & Ma Ferguson as cheap politicians whose memory makes decent Texans blush with shame...
...investigation ever disproved Senator Bailey's contention that he was unaware that Waters-Pierce Oil Co., from which he borrowed $3,300, was still controlled by the Standard Oil Trust. Exonerated, Texas' Bailey returned to the Senate, resigned in 1913, stayed out of politics until 1920 when he ran unsuccessfully for Governor. He died in a Sherman, Tex. courtroom...
...accorded last August to Silva M. A. ("Jack") Green, sign painter. and Sol Nitzberg. chicken raiser. Reds who promoted an apple-pickers' strike in Sonoma County. One night a band of unknowns seized Green and Nitzberg, clipped their hair, stripped them to the waist, doused them in crankcase oil, feathered them, paraded them through the streets of Santa Rosa, made them kiss a U. S. flag, booted them out of town...