Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ripon the chief object of political veneration was the one-room schoolhouse in which Bovay held his meeting. The building was later occupied by George W. Peck, author of Peck's Bad Boy and one-time Governor of Wisconsin...
...pound class Peck (T) and Negus (M.I.T...
...debate held in Holden Chapel last night J. K. Hurd '30 and H. A. Wolff '29 together with George Peck of Western, Reserve University, who were supporting the negative side of the proposition: "Resolved, That the principle of complete freedom of speech on political and economic grounds is sound" won a judge's decision, rendered by W. J. Butler 2L, over Alan Green and Arthur Fiske of the Cleveland institution, who had as their colleague A. L. Raffa ocC. The audience, however, favored the affirmative orators by a 4 to 2 score...
Died. Edgar Wallace Peck, 69, Manhattan retail hosiery tycoon (Peck & Peck); in Manhattan. A distrusting landlord of the Peck brothers used to collect rent every 24 hours. The firm now owns 19 prospering shops...
...Peck's committee analyzed the employment records of 187,390 U. S. manufacturing plants, employing 8,383,261 wage earners. Building, mining and transportation industries were ignored. Their millions of workers are almost entirely unionized, and their inclusion in the National Association of Manufacturers' statistics would distort the open shop picture. _ Nonetheless, Mr. Peck's findings were significant. In the industries investigated only 13.7% of the plants employed only union help, and these people comprised only 7.4% of those employed in all the especially picked factories. Non-union factories numbered 11.%, their employes 11.3% There remained...