Word: unite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under this plan public schools operate 48 weeks per year. Work, study and play are joined together as one educational unit. The school plant combines classrooms, playgrounds, gardens, workshops, library and social centre. High-school subjects are started in grammar school. The school capacity is doubled by operating on an 8-hour day with indoor and outdoor activities conducted simultaneously. Critics once loudly complained that this school system was arranged by the efficient Steel Corp. to meet the domestic needs of employes who used to work 12 hr. per day in the mills...
...Catholic Zentrum Party in Westphalia - his chief and successful effort being to organize Catholic Zentrum trade unions. Came the War and sterner duties. Bespectacled Dr. Brüning became, in an amazingly short time, be spectacled Captain Brüning, commander of a crack Prussian machine gun unit. In action he won the Iron Cross, both second and first class, returned to Westphalia wounded, hard...
...late Frank Winfield Woolworth might well have looked back with pride upon the 30-year history of his store chain. From a single unit in Lancaster, Pa., Woolworth stores had multiplied until in that year they numbered 590. Sales had grown to the startling total of $50,000,000 a year. And with possible sites for stores all over the U. S. Mr. Woolworth might well have faced the future with a justified smugness. Yet in 1909 Mr. Woolworth, a devoted worshipper of Napoleon, showed brilliant commercial strategy by opening a store in Liverpool. F. W. Woolworth...
...second unit, the Harvard Vagabonds, directed by H. N. Roberts '31, is to sail August 11, on the French liner Lafayette, planning to return on the same vessel, after an interval of ten days. During the intervening period the quintet will play in Paris...
...Augustine Farrell wired good wishes to 87-year-old Capt. Robert Dollar of San Francisco who was too ill to attend. Despite these felicitations, many a Pacific shipper last week was angry at Steelman Farrell. From Hawaii to the Atlantic, via Panama, ply the steamers of Isthmian Steamship Co., United States Steel unit, pet & pride of Mr. Farrell who has sailed before-the-mast. Last week Isthmian ships, accustomed to return from Hawaii practically empty, contracted to carry James Drummond Dole's Hawaiian pineapples direct to destination at $10 a ton, $3.95 less than the route via San Francisco. Since...