Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...C.I.O.'s many fronts. In other mass-production industries like oil, glass, rubber, motor, mining, there have been no serious setbacks. C.I.O.'s Transport Workers Union has been sweeping the field among Manhattan's taxi-drivers and subway and bus employes. Its office workers are invading Wall Street. Here & there C.I.O. has lost minor collective bargaining elections to A. F. of L.. but the defections of A. F. of L. unions into C.I.O.'s ranks still continues. Even Cigar Makers International Union Local No. 144, the local of Samuel Gompers. longtime pillar...
...change last week the stockmarket went up. It was no whooping rally; the Dow-Jones industrial averages showed a net gain of less than 3 points for the week. Daily trading on the New York Stock Exchange never reached 1,000,000 shares.* Yet Wall Street had what Owen D. Young calls a "feeling in the seat of the pants" that the market had turned a corner. From a recovery high early in March to their low in June the Dow-Jones industrials dropped approximately 15%, from 194.4 to 165.5. By last week they were back to 172.2. Mercurial shifts...
Just one month after dissolving his own Stock Exchange firm to become a limited partner of Shields & Co.* Allen Ledyard Lindley, 56, last week resigned as chairman of the Exchange's potent Committee on Business Conduct. Reason: he had to work five hours a day as "Wall Street's policeman," wanted more time of his own. Vice chairman Howland S. Davis took over...
...unauthorized "flying squadron" made up of the prime downtown hell-raisers entered East Lansing with an eye to closing business establishments and the restaurants. These first 60-odd men closed all stores along the main street with the exception of one-a pocket in the wall known as Jim Brakeman's Bootery, "smallest shoe store in the world." Jim. a 250-lb. former State footballer, does not close under just any order. And the student body likes Jim pretty well...
...York Stock Exchange volume climbed above 1,000,000 shares on two days but trading lately has been dull as ditchwater. Meanwhile Wall Street began to get acquainted with C. I. O. at first hand as organizers for the Bookkeepers, Stenographers & Accountants Union prepared for a September drive...