Word: unionizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were the gravediggers grave? Because they received $5 per day, wanted $42 per week. Because they also wanted recognition of their newly-formed Cemetery Workers' Union and reinstatement of its president, one Henry Dougherty, cemetery chauffeur, who had been ousted just before the strike...
...Board of Education planned to meet and oust Dr. Learned. A committee of parents and students planned to keep him in. The Dean calmly explained: "If nobody smoked cigarets what would happen to the public school system of North Carolina? This is the biggest cigaret producing state in the Union...
Last week marked what may well be a turning point in the campaign of Actors' Equity Association (actors' union) to enforce the Equity closed shop in Hollywood (TIME, July 8, Aug. 5). Six cinemactors, with Equity approval, met with delegates of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, hitherto haughtily oblivious of Equity demands. The actors: Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Edmund Lowe, Noah Beery, Louise Dresser, Ralph Forbes. Though the meetings were secret, observers were cheered by signs of arbitration after weeks of feverish, noisy invective...
...Methodists. Prosperous for their time (post-Civil War period), they gave their joint surplus of $30,000 to the Methodist Episcopal Church for a Christian college to train colored youths in medicine. The church founded the college at Nashville. First head and instructor was Dr. George W. Hubbard, onetime Union Army private who had hastily studied medicine. His helper was Dr. W. G. Snead, onetime Confederate Army surgeon. Present president of Irish-founded Meharry is Dr. John J. Mullowney, white...
...Grosse Isle Airport near Detroit 15 miles apart. A third gateway for foreign air commerce named last week is Newport, Vt. Thus there are 13 airports of entry in the U. S. - last week's three and Key West, Miami, St. Paul, Albany, San Juan, Seattle, Lake Union (near Seattle), Newark (N. J.), San Diego, Los Angeles (all ports under Los Angeles jurisdiction...