Word: pawtucket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pawtucket, R. I., Oct. 31--Okapi and Mack Garner teamed up here today at Narragansett Park and whipped the great Equipoise...
...Marion, N. C. in 1929 because of premature attempts to organize Southern millworkers. The Danville, Va. strike in 1931 was also a failure. At Lawrence, Mass, in 1932, the Union's six-month struggle blocked wage cuts for woolen workers. A strike among silk workers at Pawtucket, R. I. in 1933 won better wages, a reduction of the machine load per employe. Last year Francis Gorman invaded the South once more to organize cotton textile workers in Alabama. There 13,000 men struck in mid-July, a prelude to the greater strike last week...
Thus last week wrote Columnist Heywood Broun of Raymond Mathewson Hood who at 40 was penniless and obscure and who, when he died of arthritis last week at 53, was as famed as any architect in the U. S. A childhood with religious parents in Pawtucket, R. I. made him so rigorous a Baptist that, when he entered the Beaux Arts in Paris, he refused even to look at Notre Dame because it was Catholic. Later he lost the vigor of his religious beliefs but never his lusty delight in arguments, his habit of sloppy dressing, his inordinate liking...
...telegraphed words and concluded by asking a job as guard at the White House. A West Virginia wrecking company sent its somewhat ambiguous "cooperation." And once in a while there is the cheery personal note, heartening to an harassed president. So far the prize goes to the Pawtucket, Rhode Island, lodge of Moose who began their response to the great summons with, "Dear Brother Moose." It is all a cross section of a nation, depicted by prepaid words on telegraph blanks...
...other officers elected were John Thomas Higgens '34, of Pawtucket, Rhodo Island, vice president and Victor Horsley Kramer '35, of Cincinnati, Ohio, secretary-treasurer. Phillips has been in all the debates this year, and was president of the 1930 Freshman Debating Council...