Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the Conference of Catholic Charities (see p. 13). At his town house he received General Hugh Samuel Johnson, just out of the hospital where he had been nursing a painful boil. For him President Roosevelt signed 17 NRA codes, most important of which were those for banks, boot & shoe manufacturers, retail lumber dealers, retail automobile dealers...
...Court of Love and Beauty until his coming again" by the Veiled Prophet, whose identity is traditionally kept secret even by local newspapers, at the ceremonious 54th annual Veiled Prophet Ball in St. Louis, was Jane Alva Johnson, 19, daughter of Vice President Andrew W. Johnson of International Shoe Co. Present at the coronation was Prince Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, Ford employe, second son of the ex-Crown Prince, who commented: "It is a long time since I have witnessed such scenes...
...Working Man," also showing at the University today stars Mr. Arliss who is the shoe manufacturer. He takes a vacation and meets the son and daughter of a dead friend who was his rival in business. These children are wasting their fortune on liquor and debauches. Mr. Arliss is an amusing angel who guides the youngsters back to respectability. As usual, he acts in his own inimitable, unchangeable style. "The Working Man" is suitable for the children; so is "Three Little Pigs...
...sponsored strikes throughout the land. Completely forgotten was last summer's truce to which Mr. Green himself subscribed. These strikes were undertaken or threatened to: 1) force better codes at Washington as in the cases of the silk industry at Paterson, N. J. and the boot & shoe industry at Brockton, Mass.; 2) gain union recognition as in the case of 100,000 New York City transit workers; 3) revenge NRA violations as in the case of light & power employes. Senator Wagner's National Labor Board could not settle old strikes as fast as new ones cropped...
...first appearance is made in front of Rector's. The painted backdrop does not look much like the facade of Rector's; neither does Broadway Joe's cab look like any other ever seen. A washbasin with running water pops out of the top, a shoe-shining device promptly begins whirring over the driver's toes. The seat flops back and a gas range appears. From an icebox which has handily sprung out of the vehicle's superstructure, Broadway Joe extracts the makings of a midnight snack, cutting the bread with a hatchet and finally...