Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election scheduled for this spring, Senor Pueyrredon had made the grandest of grandstand plays to convince the electorate that he alone is of sufficiently tough presidential timber to stand up for Argentina, even against the U. S. With Outpopper Pueyrredon thus self-eliminated, the treaty reorganizing the Pan-American Union was submitted in innocuous form to the plenary session of the Conference...
Significantly at this point enters the question of Anschluss: the much- mooted union of Austria with Germany. Such union is believed by many economists to be vital to the commercial survival of Austria. It could be made unnecessary by moving the League to Vienna. But Germans want Anschluss, want to absorb Austria. Therefore Germany, with a Council Seat on the League, may be expected to fight tooth and claw any move to move the League...
...Stanford University, President of the Geological Society of America -freely predicted some time ago that the next mighty upheaval of the Pacific Coast would come in Southern California. As a result of that prediction, insurance rates in Los Angeles skyrocketed 200 to 2,200%. The premium of the Union Bank and Trust Co.'s building, for example, went from...
...Western Union Telegraph Co. (Ready-to-wire sentiments)-$1,205,458. Previous year...
Keeley had had a formal medical education at Rush Medical College (now University of Chicago Medical School) and practiced as an Army surgeon for a time. Later the Chicago & Alton R. R. employed him as official surgeon. That was in the period when the Women's Christian Temperance Union made Ten Nights in a Bar Room a gospel of propriety, when the late Carrie Nation and her harridans heaved hatchets through expensive back-bar mirrors and at good mahogany fixtures. On that temperance agitation Keeley rode. Dwight, Ill., became the "Mecca of Liberty," the "Drunkard's Divorce Court...