Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel Vauclain, president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, created a sensation by a speech before the New Orleans Association of Commerce. He brought 500 business men to their feet cheering when he declared: " Samuel Gompers says dire things will happen if we have open shops. My God! Have any of you gentlemen ever seen Samuel Gompers? Will you tell me what there is to be afraid...
...Samuel Gompers replied to Mr. Vauclain's remarks by denouncing his industrial attitude as "best typified by Lenin and Trotzky and their gang." "Trade unionism and freedom will come to Mr. Vauclain's shops," continued Mr. Gompers. " We shall not make threats. We leave that to him. But freedom will come, even into the last fastness of reaction. Neither Mr. Vauclain, Mr. Gary, nor any other autocrat can forever drive slaves on a tyrant's terms in the Republic of the United States. He does poorly to fling his brutal taunt into the faces of American manhood. The late George...
...Samuel Gompers attacked the American Fund for Public Service, Inc., (an institution controlling $800,000 of the inheritance of Charles Garland, radical and eccentric millionaire) as serving to bring together through its trustees " an interlocking network" of 50 or more " pacifist and revolutionary organizations of a more or less extreme character...
...been invented by Professor Katz, a Rus-sian opthahlmologist, according to newspaper stories from Petrograd. The withered tissue in the front part of the ball has been cut away and the semi-artificial eye inserted in eight patients, with restoration of sight. A reputable journalist ? Mr. Samuel Spewack, of The New York Worlds-sponsors the announcement and claims to have seen the operation demonstrated...
...Samuel W. Vauclain, President of the Baldwin Locomotive Co: "It was suggested to me that I become a candidate for the Presidency in 1924. Said I: 'I'd rather be President of Baldwin's. It pays better and is more...