Word: pinkertons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most sacred and precious spot at the Fair," cried New York's Mayor LaGuardia at the opening. Precious to the tune of $30,000,000 in insurance, the paintings were hung in a windowless concrete and steel building, thorny with burglar alarms, guarded day & night by a Pinkerton detective in each of the 25 rooms. But because no grandeurs were attempted and most of the pictures were small. World's Fair trippers could get through the show on their first legs rather than their last...
...terrorized miners' families, taken pot shots at bosses, and made things generally hot for law-abiding mine folks. "Mollies" had been as much of a nuisance to the coal fields' feeble labor organizations as to the mine owners. When they were finally dispersed with the aid of Pinkerton detectives and hangman's rope, all the soberer citizens of Pennsylvania's mining towns sighed with relief. But Pennsylvania's miners still sing about them...
...discussions with studio officials will concern modifications of Madame Butterfly (which Paramount made twice before, most lately in 1932 with Sylvia Sydney and no music) to make it more complimentary to Japan, better propaganda for the kind of occidentalization in which the Konoyes specialize. In the Konoye Butterfly, Pinkerton is a U. S. musician instead of a Navy lieutenant. After he reluctantly deserts Cho Cho San, she decides to be a singer, goes to the U. S. for her grand debut. Instead of a tragedy, the Konoye Butterfly, which the Viscount hopes to have photographed mostly in Japan with...
...previous appearance before the La Follette committee last summer, Pinkerton officials admitted that U. S. employers had paid the agency $1,750,000 for labor spy and strikebreaking services since 1933. Last week the committee produced figures to show that General Motors, biggest Pinkerton customer, had paid at least $419,850. Pinkerton services to G. M. had ended suddenly only the previous fortnight. Most of the G. M. jobs were the routine stuff of planting agents in labor unions to betray them. But one shocker revealed a new angle of U. S. labor espionage, cast a shadow not only...
...witness chair sat one William H. Martin, a slick-haired young onetime Pinkerton operative, now unemployed. In 1935, he said, he was sent to Toledo to work on the Chevrolet strike then in progress. He was assigned, he recalled, to shadow "a man named McGrady, a Government mediator...