Word: partings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...industry as a monopoly, was the proposal of onetime Senator Gilbert Monell Hitchcock of the Omaha World-Herald. Said he: "Whatever the directors do of a temporary nature ought to be supplemented by some action towards permanent relief, such as developing a new supply of newsprint for the western part of the United States, possibly from Alaskan sources or a supply from European sources...
...Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose husband part owns the Chicago Tribune and Liberty, lost a lawsuit at Aiken, S. C., over a horse which she had bought from S. A. Warner Baltazzi of Westbury, L. I. The Court ordered her to pay $3,500 to Baltazzi. Her complaint: the horse was lame...
Edward Hugh Sothern, oldtime Shakespearean trouper with his wife Julia Marlowe, spoke in Chicago about the U. S. stage. Said he: "Fifty years ago we led the world in stock companies of fine standards. Now we are in lewd and vulgar depths for the most part...
Shorter hours, longer pay, group protection, a fixed scale of wages to abolish discriminatory employment-such were the keynotes of a cry for the unionization of the U. S. aviation industry sounded last week by Dale ("Red") Jackson, part-possessor of the world's unofficial endurance refueling record (TIME. Aug. 12). With L. H. Atkinson, until recently sub-executive for Universal Air Lines, he sent out the first of 140,000 letters to pilots, mechanics, apprentices and student flyers to get them to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. They seek to promote brotherly fellowship, make working conditions...
...greater part of this narrative of an unadventurous but representative life is given in Grandma Brown's own words. Says her daughter-in-law: "Recording her story in her own pungent speech, I have hoped to catch and preserve for Grandmother Brown's descendants some of the flavor of her personality; her aspirations, her achievements, even her limitations; her innocent vanities; her lovable animosities; her patient endeavors...