Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later the newly created Chamber of Fasces and Corporations met to sanction the union of Italy and Albania. Noticeably absent in the diplomatic box were the Ambassadors of the U. S., Britain, France, Soviet Russia, whose countries vigorously disapproved of the Albanian annexation. Conspicuous was a distinguished visitor, Field Marshal Hermann Goring, and wild cheers greeted his entrance. In a box at the right sat 120 Albanian "Sons of the Eagle," come to hand their country over to Italy. They, too, were cheered, and they answered with the Fascist salute...
...went ahead anyhow, at week's end had been formally arrested 16 times, once at each afternoon and evening showing. Challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance in a police-court show-down this week, Manager Allen will have on his side 1) the American Civil Liberties Union, 2) the Ku Klux Klan...
...afternoon last week in the assembly room on the 23rd floor of the Manhattan headquarters of Western Union Telegraph Co., suave old Board Chairman Newcomb Carlton fingered a gavel, peered out anxiously at 200 faces, more of Western Union's 30,772 stockholders than he had ever seen at one time. Western Union's President Roy Barton White, stocky old-time railroad telegrapher, was reading a prepared statement explaining why Western Union had lost $1,637,000 in 1938. When perspiring President White lamely concluded that the report was the company's and not to be considered...
When he was 15, Arthur Flatto began buying stocks out of his allowance (first was U. S. Rubber). In 1929 he got into Western Union, at 240, later bought more. Russell Sage once said that only once in a lifetime did a man have the chance to enrich himself by buying Western Union below $50 a share, and when that chance came, Arthur Flatto took it and held on. Last week he held 1,350 shares of Western Union, selling...
...chain of circumstances that discredited Russell Sage, angered Arthur Flatto and many another Western Union stockholder, is similar to that with which railroads are familiar: revenues down and costs up, largely for reasons beyond the management's control (see below). But Arthur Flatto believed that the management had "failed to function properly in producing profits," three months ago started rounding up proxies to oppose the management slate. No mere corporate troublemaker, he spent $4,450 out of his own pocket convincing other dissatisfied shareholders that they were entitled to minority representation "just like the Supreme Court." This proposition Messrs...