Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after the strike began last fortnight one South Carolina mill-owner flashed the following bulletin to the Cotton-Textile Institute's New York headquarters : "Our mills will continue to operate indefinitely. They are now barricaded and ready for a state of siege." That mill-owner was a thickset, thick-spectacled young man worth about $20,000,000, who habitually wears straw-woven slippers and a beltless Norfolk jacket of 1917 vintage. His name is Elliott White Springs...
Unexpectedly to the mill-owner's side after two weeks of silence charged NRAdministrator Johnson. At an NRA Code Authority meeting in Manhattan he accused U. T. W.'s President Thomas F. MacMahon of bad faith, denounced the strike as an "absolute violation" of the agreement reached by U. T. W. and NRA when a strike threatened last June (TIME, June 11). Roared the redoubtable General : "If such agreements of organized labor are worth no more than this one, then that institution is not such a responsible instrumentality...
Into the business of arson enter three parties: 1) the owner of a well-insured establishment. 2) the middleman, 3) the firer. An arson-bound store owner can find many a middleman who, for some $2,000, will arrange a fire. But the middle-man can find few skillful firers. Bertha Warshovsky, Chicago's most expert firer, knows most of arson's middlemen. Some ten years ago she began to make money by fabricating and selling to arsonists a gadget consisting of a short candle tightly bound with kitchen matches. Price: $5 to $10. Later when she found...
Lefter Than Left. In Washington, Lewis Baxter ("Lewie") Schwellenbach's strongest opponent for the Democratic Senatorial nomination ran on a "Left Wing" platform, advocating state owner ship of utilities. Lefter than left, Candidate Schwellenbach, Seattle attorney, borrowed Upton Sinclair's EPIC plan and campaigned for End Poverty In Washington. He and his EPIW won. A 40-year-old bachelor who lives with his mother, Nominee Schwellenbach has come by his Leftism lately. Two years ago he was inconspicuously defeated in the Democratic gubernatorial primary by Governor Clarence D. Martin. As soon as he was elected, Governor Martin made...
...Owner of Mason's tower is Powel Crosley Jr.'s 500,000-watt Radio Station WLW, strongest broadcaster on earth. WLW pointed out that the people of Mason, if they wanted to install the proper apparatus, could probably snatch enough power out of the air to cook their meals, wash & iron their clothes, clean their rugs, run their radios...