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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admit delegates from the Seamen's Union (suspected of being red); refused to receive a delegation of unemployed coal miners who had walked many a mile from their mine to appeal for help; and shouted down John Joseph Jones M. P., famed as "Jumping Jack Jones," when he rose to protest that the seamen and miners ought to be granted at least a hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Labor's Jubilee | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...pitiable little scene passed almost unnoticed amid the triumph of MONDISM. Famed A. J. "Emperor" Cook, the fighting Laborite who precipitated the General Strike, rose and began to address the Congress with torrential passion, crying that trade unions exist not to cooperate with employers' associations but to wring concessions from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Labor's Jubilee | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Thus, spoke one day last week M. Maurice Bokanowski, Minister of Commerce and Aviation, director of the Postal Service. A few minutes later he stepped into an airplane which rose unsteadily to an altitude of 300 feet. Suddenly a sheet of flame shot from the motor. The plane crashed down in flames. Two hours later M. Bokanowski's body was extricated from the twisted steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death of Bokanowski | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Schulte-United. On the stock exchange shares of Schulte Retail Stores Corp. rose a few points. The apparent operations of a stock market pool was one cause; another, and more important, was the much mooted merger of Schulte (300 branches) with United Cigar Stores Corp. (3,000 branches). The two firms are now joined in interests in Union United Tobacco Co. (a holding company) and Schulte-United Five-Cents-to-a-Dollar Stores. United has large stockholdings in the Pennsylvania Drug Co., Schulte in the American Druggists Syndicate; United in Life Savers Inc., Beechnut Packing Co., Gillette Safety Razor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

With Anaconda rose another mighty copperman, John D. Ryan. Copperman Ryan had been store clerk, drummer, oilman. He did business with Marcus Daly, and when Daly died, young Ryan took over his interests. Then Rockefeller-partner Henry H. Rogers invited him to take charge of Amalgamated Copper in Montana, then in the midst of the dispute with Heinze. In 1908, Rogers died and Ryan became president of Amalgamated. In 1910, it merged with Anaconda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: War in Montana | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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