Word: pawtucket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jackson of Springfield, D. J. Kelly of Cambridge, T. P. Shea of Spring field, H. A. Swaifield of Fairfield, Conn J. N. Young of North Adams, R. Dillon of Hartford, Conn O. Tower of Andover, W. F. Coady of Boston, L. E. Ball of Amherst, J. P. Haughy of Pawtucket, R. I. J. LeCain of Springfield, H. McGinness of Brighton, H. I. O'Brien of Rutland, Vt. C. M. Amfott of Fitchburg, W. Brennan of New York, E. L. Couture of Windsor, Vt. C. H. Edwards of Waterville, Mc. G. Hayes of Hartford, Conn P. C. Rogers of Exeter...
...Pawtucket, R. I., Dr. William Rothwell, 63, is known as a good physician, a generous host. For 30 years he has always reached for his wallet, always stood treat. Recently he ordered his tombstone. A great boulder, it now stands, ready, in a local cemetery. His inscription: "This...
North Carolina. Gastonia, N. C., is named for William Gaston, onetime (1875-76) Massachusetts Governor. There the Manville-Jenckes Co., Pawtucket, R. I., operates the Loray Mills, producing yarn for cord tires. Six months ago the National Textile Workers Union began organizing in this and neighboring mills. Last week they came into the open, called a strike answered by 1,000 Loray workers. They demanded: a $20 minimum weekly wage, a 40-hour (five-day) week, abolition of the "stretch-out" system, a 50% cut in company rents and light rates, recognition of the union. The mill operators refused...
...Wright, assistant in Economics 2, will today conduct a group of members from that course on an excursion to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where a tour through several textile mills will be made. One of the places visited will be an old mill which is soon to be made into a museum to exhibit old time methods of textile manufacturing, while another will be a modern plant in which the most modern production methods are employed...
Woonsocket, Manville, Albion. As the Derby waved wide and high, cheers swelled. Berkeley, Valley Falls. All along the roads, school children and mill wives shrilled "Hello, Al! Hello, Al!" Central Falls and Pawtucket, hulloos and shrieks ? then Providence...