Word: rubbered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other C. I. O. unions also went down to defeat in two Ohio cities, where they backed the Democratic tickets. In Akron the United Rubber Workers saw their candidate, G. L. Patterson, nosed out by Republican Mayor Lee D. Schroy, 35,000-to-29,000. In Canton, one of the hottest salients in the "Little Steel" strike last summer, the Labor candidate, Darrell D. Smith, though backed by both C. I. O. and A. F. of L., was roundly trounced by Mayor James Seccombe...
...market's trend. The 16 FLASH issues: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; American Telephone & Telegraph; Anaconda Copper; Chrysler; Sears, Roebuck; Great Northern (preferred); Consolidated Edison; Republic Steel; General Motors; Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric; N. Y. Central; Electric Power & Light; U. S. Steel; U. S. Rubber; Douglas Aircraft...
Died. Colonel Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, 58, senior partner of G.M.-P. Murphy & Co., World War U. S. Red Cross Commissioner and lieutenant colonel in the A.E.F.; of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1921 Grayson Murphy laid the foundation of his financial reputation by skillfully reorganizing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Last year a committee he headed salvaged for debenture holders what little there was to be salvaged from the Kreuger & Toll disaster. Little known outside of Wall Street, Grayson Murphy was not only a Republican who shot grouse in Scotland, but in 1928 a Liberal (meaning wet) Republican...
...result of their recent nocturnal spat in his hallway (TIME, Oct. 4), Secretary Carlotta Monti announced she would sue Funnyman W, C. Fields for $200,000. Said Secretary Monti's lawyer: "She will accuse Fields of breaking a walking stick over her head and belaboring her with a rubber hammer." Snorted Funnyman Fields: "I've been sued before-and by experts...
...drop in metals pretty well completed the deflation of last spring's commodity boom, the root of current business troubles. Cash wheat was down from $1.60 to $1.23 per bu.; corn from $1.58 to $1.21 per bu. ; cotton from 15¼? to 8½? per lb.; rubber from 27? to 17¼ per lb.; steel scrap from $23.50 to $18 per ton; cocoa from 13? to 7? per lb.; turpentine from...