Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nibley, daughter of U. S. Senator Reed Smoot of Nevada; on the ground of men tal cruelty; in Long Beach. Elected. Myron Charles Taylor, Manhattan capitalist (banks, railroads, insurance), finance committee chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.; to be a director of the Metropolitan Opera Company, succeeding the late Manhattan capitalist Ogden Mills. Reelected. John Jacob Raskob of Wilmington, Del., chairman of the Democratic National Committee, as a member of the finance committee of General Motors Corp.* Donaldson Brown of Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y., was appointed to succeed Mr. Raskob as finance committee chairman. Died. Marjorie Cassidy Baer...
Died. Moses V. Joseph, 70, of Birmingham, Ala., pioneer merchant, financier (banks, steel mills, real estate), Jewish leader; in Birmingham...
Another step in the direction of the Five-Day Week, predicted by Contractor Fred T. Ley (TIME, May 6) and many another observer of U. S. labor, was taken last week when the Manhattan Structural Steel Board of Trade granted the Five-Day Week to 2,500 ironworkers. An increase in pay-per-hour insured workers of no decrease in wages. Manhattan electricians and bricklayers had previously won the Five-Day Week battle...
...Voted to use $166,000 of the reserve funds of the Harvard Athletic Association for permanent steel trusses in the new gymnasium...
...this point however, little of the vast amount of steel that is necessary to the completed building would have been used, only 20,000 tons of steel construction being necessary below the second story level. The second story is composed largely of steel, the trusses being the foundation of support for the upper reaches of the building as well as a central factor in tieing up the construction previous to this point...