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...comedy. Screenwriters Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich have gone further, using the sound frame of O'Neill's drama as the basis for a period pastiche. It is all there, for people who can think back 30 years: the band concert on the common; the tandem bicycles, shirtwaist watches, lemonade and porch swings; the crested brewery horses, prancing to the political club picnic on the Fourth of July; the bombardment of firecrackers which on that date turned the streets of every U. S. city into miniature battlefields. But even those who do not know what a Stanley Steamer...
...first to take a code. At Lincolnton, N. C. mill hours were upped from 40 to 50 per week, minimum wages also upped from $12 to $16. At Greenville, S. C. the Piedmont Shirt Co. cut wages 25%, upped hours from 36 to 40 hours. At Atlanta 20 piecework shirtwaist makers struck when wages were cut from $1.80 to $1.50 a dozen, hours upped from 35 to 37½ At Manchester, Conn. 1,200 silk workers threatened to strike against a 5% to 20% wage cut imposed by Ward Cheney, great NRAdvocate, head of Cheney Bros. He backed down...
...Neither knows Mrs. Benedict. Professor Morgan, 50, is a short, trim woman with slightly grey bobbed hair, blue eyes. Since 1906 she has taught zoology at Mount Holyoke (except for two years at Cornell), has headed her department since 1916. During school hours she habitually wears a tailored skirt, shirtwaist, tie, white "physician's" coat. She moves briskly about her laboratories, lectures her classes in clear, crisp tones. Her recent writings for learned publications have dealt with the winter habits and yearly food consumption of adult spotted newts. But her favorite preoccupation has been and, says she, will always...
...Miss Perkins was having tea with friends near Manhattan's Washington Square when the cry of "Fire!" sent them tumbling to the street. There before her eyes 146 factory girls were burned to a crisp in the great Triangle Shirtwaist fire. That fire started a reform movement for industry which Miss Perkins still reads. As a member of a committee on safety, she went to Albany, lobbied through legislation for factory fire prevention. There, too, she met three young legislators-Al Smith, Bob Wagner and Franklin Roosevelt-who have been her great & good friends ever since...
...problems, she corrected the U. S. Public Employment Service's low unemployment estimate last August. She has a 15-year-old daughter. She is a Mount Holyoke graduate; always wears a brown, high-crowned, three-cornered hat. She went into social service work after witnessing Manhattan's tragic Triangle Shirtwaist fire in 1911, in which 146 girl workers were killed...