Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scarce was copper in the U. S. that President Dwight R. G. Palmer of General Cable Corp. last week dispatched letters to Congress urging that the emergency 4?-per-lb. tax on foreign copper should not be extended after it expires next June. "Present indications are that in 1937 U. S. production will not supply U. S. consumption," declared this big copper user, pointing out that an "acute shortage" actually occurred last December...
...dark winter of 1932 "Uncle Dan" Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio and eight other railroad presidents met 21 representatives of railroad labor in the Palmer House at Chicago. The U. S. railroads, said "Uncle Dan" in effect, were just about broke. Maintenance and fixed charges had been cut to the bone. Would the 1.000,000 U. S. railway employes take at 10% temporary deduction in pay to save the roads from ruin? The workers' representatives said yes. Two years later in Washington Capital and Labor again got together, agreed on a staggered plan to restore the deduction, thus unsensationally...
Into Chicago's big commercial Palmer House 1,500 delegates of the Music Teachers National Association and other music bigwigs swarmed last week to spend four days arguing and agreeing, airing big plans and uttering big grievances. U. S. Commissioner of Education John Ward Studebaker urged them to support a proposed $98,000 budget for the new U. S. Department of Music & Fine Arts. The teachers managed to agree, and raised $1,100. They showed less agreement but much more emotion when Leo Fischer, executive secretary of the American Guild of Musical Artists, appealed for the Dickstein Bill which...
...Chicago's Palmer House one day last week rose speaker after speaker to pledge renewed allegiance to Liberty, the Constitution and the American Way of Life, assure his fellow members of the Republican National Committee that they had fought a good fight, been beaten only by the New Deal's unbeatable Relief funds. Vice President-reject Frank Knox generously conceded that the return of prosperity and Republicans' failure to "popularize" their issues had had something to do with it. The only harsh words at the consolation party came from two uninvited guests...
Several parents of the children also gathered in the parlor of the House to watch a program of entertainment that was arranged by James M. Mixter '40, Harold C. Palmer '40, and Peter E. Pratt...