Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smalltown bankers grinned and bore it without a whimper. Now that the shoe pinches it is the big bank and the big banker that makes more noise than a pig under a fence. It is the big banker who goes to the R. F. C. and it is the big banker who started the banking holiday. The little banker keeps on and on despite the onus that has been given to his profession. Give the smalltown banker credit for a job well done. ALLEN D. RUSSELL Plymouth Savings Bank Plymouth, Mass...
Taking action against the policy of the A. R. Hyde Shoe Company in its treatment of employees, several Harvard professors and their wives have furnished bail for strikers they believe wrongfully arrested and have collected food and clothing for these in need...
With placards waving and shouts of "We want the union," about 500 strikers from the A. R. Hyde Shoe Company of East Cambridge passed in parade up Massachusetts Avenue about 12 o'clock yesterday. With the strikers marched a group of students from Harvard, Radcliffe, Wellesley, and Boston University...
Acting independently, W. H. Cary, dean of the Sophomore Class, and the Harvard Liberal Club, have decided to support about 350 of the 900 workers at the A. R. Hyde Shoe Company. These laborers have been out on strike for seven weeks in an endeavor to secure "better wages, decent working conditions, and the recognition of the National Shoe and Leather Workers Union...
...Working Man (Warner). John Reeves (George Arliss) of Reeves Shoe Co. is a testy old tycoon; when his nephew and general manager implies that his days of usefulness are over, he takes himself fishing in a rage, runs into the two addle-headed children of his recently deceased industrial rival, Hartland. At first, Reeves plans to diddle the Hartland heirs out of their shoe factory. Presently he changes his mind; it pleases him better to get himself appointed their guardian under a pseudonym, make them help him build up their plant. This adds to their self-respect and diminishes...