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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Signed) All Japan Singer Sewing Machine Employes Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Cordwood & Thugs | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

Just before Christmas silent-footed persons posted the above notice on the door of Japan-born Alvin K. Aurell, son of a Kansas-born missionary, today branch manager in Yokohama for Singer Sewing Machine Co. Mr. Aurell was not exactly alarmed. Singer's labor troubles in Japan began more than a year ago, caused the company to close its Osaka and Kobe branches last November. Last week Manager Aurell sat calmly eating his lunch when a large motor truck drove up to his branch, dumped a load of cordwood in front of the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Cordwood & Thugs | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...hundred excited Japanese strikers and sochi ("hired thugs")* arrived with the cordwood. Slamming the door in their faces, Singer Assistant Manager Gilbert Parsons shot the bolt, raised an alarm and led the few Singer office workers who had not gone out to lunch up four flights of stairs to the roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Cordwood & Thugs | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...Simone Boccanegra last autumn Tibbett opened the Manhattan opera season (TIME, Nov. 28). an honor the Metropolitan has given to only one other male singer, the late great Tenor Caruso. Tenors are naturally the heroes of most operas just as pitchers are the heroes of ball games. Baritones, like catchers, have to knock homeruns to be noticed and their chances at conspicuous parts come less often than a catcher's turn at bat. Tibbett's homerun in Falstaff earned him a $1,500 bonus from the Metropolitan management and opportunities which, stretching out into four distinct musical fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: O'Neill into Opera | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

...taking to Russia any better than he had as a boy, he returned to sell Singer sewing machines in Pittsburgh. From that he went to life insurance and then to Manhattan real estate. In 1921 Harris Nevin built 500 houses in Jamaica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Nevin to the Coast | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

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