Word: openings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since April 17, 800 members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America have been on strike against David Adler & Sons, Milwaukee garment makers, recent converts to nonunionism. Last week, strikers announced they would open a factory of their own, join the 12,000 makers and distributors of natty coats, pants and vests for Hart, Schaffner & Marx...
...Jersey, possibly as a sympathetic reaction from the New York excitement, the Rev. Marna S. Poulson, Anti-Salooner, announced that Newark was "wide open," especially as to gambling in Newark's Chinatown...
Last week "Blunt Beelaerts," as scurrilous U. S. correspondents term him, consented to receive the press, an infrequent condescension. Evidently his breakfast eggs, toast, cheese, preserves and cups of chocolate had been especially satisfying, for "Blunt Beelaerts" proceeded to open with a Dutch pleasantry...
...publicity intended to interrupt his feat every time he grew tired. A soldier in a motor boat accompanied him to shoot at any obnoxious alligators. Trans-canal steamship passage was not halted. Nonetheless, the proposed stunt approached the scandalous. It costs the U. S. several hundred dollars to open the canal locks needed for the swim. At Gatun Locks Swimmer Halliburton paid 36? (correct charge on a tonnage basis) to be floated up the 85 ft. from Limon Bay to Gatun Lake...
...little theatre ... a famous old theatre and we plan to open Labor Day with our own stock company. We will try out a number of new plays as well as present revivals of plays that have been given on Broadway during the last few years...