Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whereas under prevailing economic conditions unorganized workers are commonly helpless, it is necessary that they have full freedom of trade union organization . . . for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection...
...bill would prevent the issuance of injunctions: 1) to prevent strikes; 2) to impound strike benefit payments; 3) to stifle strike publicity; 4) to block strike meetings. No strike could be construed in restraint of trade. Temporary injunctions would be limited to five days and then only if the complainant posted a large bond. Violation of injunctions (contempt of court) would be tried before a jury. Applicants for injunctions would have to establish their case, not by affidavits, as now, but by sworn testimony to which Labor could make answer. Enjoiners would also have to prove they had made "every...
Trixie Friganza, a survival of the age which the Almanac lampoons, floats laughably about the stage, an hilarious Zeppelin brightened with a Mazda smile. "How is my dear old mother tonight?" someone asks her. "Lousy," she replies. Fred Keating, a magician by trade, stuffs birds down his shirt front in a highly invisible manner while acting as master of the rakish ceremonies. Noel Coward, Peter Arno, John McGowan and most admirably Rube Goldberg are implicated in suitable capacities, as is the author of a song called, "I May be Wrong." Credit for the rest of the Almanac's sophisticated...
Chairman of the new bank is to be Louis Charles Kurtz, 62, jocularly called a tinner because he learned that trade in his father's wholesale hardware, plumbing and heating supplies company. To him was left the responsibility for a bank when its president went off to work for the famed Chicago Banker-Brothers Reynolds, who were also onetime Des Moines bankers...
United Aircraft & Transport, by a stock trade, last week, acquired control of Standard Steel Propeller Co., West Homestead, Pa., maker of air propellers from aluminum alloy. United Aircraft was also organizing Northrup Aviation Corp. to take over the assets of John K. Northrup's Avian Corp., which is developing a new type of all-metal plane at Los Angeles. Recently United acquired Sikorsky Aviation Corp. (amphibians) and Stearman Aircraft Co. (commercial planes), is negotiating for Douglas Aircraft Co. (sport planes...