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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marion. When the warning siren blew on the Marion Manufacturing Co.'s mill in Marion, N. C., one morning last week, Sheriff Oscar F. Adkins began to make a speech at the mill gates. He and several deputies had been up all night, warned by the mill officials of impending trouble. Across the street in front of the postoffice was a crowd of night shift workers bent on persuading the day shift not to go to work. The picketers were union people, men, women and children, members of United Textile Workers (subsidiary of the A. F. of L.). They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fresh Blood | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Listened to a speech by James Ramsay MacDonald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Senator Moses, another important Hooverizer, "urged me to make a big navy speech in Boston during the Hoover campaign to fool the simple Irish," said Shearer. This was undenied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shearer's Party | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...brokers. "A statistician who has been always wrong"-"A man for whose opinion the market has no great regard"-"A chronic bear always predicting disaster"-were typical introductory sentences to Babson-flaying opinions. Last week the Market broke and the commentators either blamed the Hatry incident, the Snowden speech, the loans to brokers, or whatnot-or else conceded that stocks had been forced to artificial heights. Vindicated, Mr. Babson said nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Break | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Some 150 people heard the speech, in which Cohen reminded them of the injustices to Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, to Moody and Billings in California, to Hoffman in Tennessee, and to himself in Cambridge, where he was not allowed to distribute Socialist circulars on the streets. Police allowed the meeting to run its length without interruption...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COHEN UNMOLESTED IN BOSTON SPEECH | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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