Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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National Chairman Raskob received from one W. H. Ridgeway, of San Antonio, Tex., an "appeal to your spirit of sportsmanship.'' Mr. Ridgeway thought that Nominee Hoover was going to carry "every State in the Union except Louisiana, Mississippi. Georgia and South Carolina" (The Literary Digest's straw vote predicted that Nominee Hoover would carry Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, South Carolina). He asked Mr. Raskob to get these States to ''fall in line" and "make it unanimous...
...advocated election reforms, fought for woman suffrage, enacted the most progressive social-service and public-welfare laws in the world, and that these laws and the Tammany-made industrial code for the protection of wage-earners of both sexes have been copied by most of the States of the Union and by foreign governments is never stressed by the leather-lunged hirelings of so-called 'reform movements' that sprout, attain rank, growth, and wither, all within a few years...
There are only eight electoral votes in Nebraska. But farmers went from many states around to hear the speech. Radio carried it still further. Republicans in the Dakotas, Iowa and Minnesota followed Norris "out of camp." President H. G. Keeney of the Nebraska Farmers Union, oldtime Republican, presided at the Omaha meeting...
Cartoonist Comrade Bill ("William") Cropper sketched Edward of Wales as a chinless pimply youth, resplendent in gold braid, sword, and high boots, parading across Africa upon the bowed backs of blackamoors. Behind H. R. H. tramped a paunchy male, clad in striped trousers and cutaway coat, waving a Union Jack, and representing (according to the communistic caption) the "British Labor Party'' (Socialistic...
Communications. Mighty are the four chief U. S. communication companies (Radio, I. T. & I., A. T. & T., Western Union). Mightier still would be a combination of any two of them. But under the White Act, U. S. cable and radio companies may not merge. Surprising, piquant, therefore, was the admission of President Newcomb Carlton of Western Union last week, that he had conferred with Chairman of the Board Owen D. Young of Radio Corp., the subject being a possible, desirable merger...