Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Workers. Clerk Williams, who once heeled in South Philadelphia's "Little Italy," proposed to build up a regular heelers' union, with dues, locals, organizers and perhaps eventually affiliation with either the American Federation of Labor or the Committee for Industrial Organization. He was particularly incensed at the ward leaders, the only machine men who even know the precinct workers' names, and the only ones through whom they can do business with the higher...
...uncounted millions of U. S. school children, uncounted thousands of classroom radios were tuned-in in four time zones one day last week to hear what bustling Commissioner John Ward Studebaker of the U. S. Office of Education had arranged as an "ideal commencement program." National Broadcasting contributed a network of some 50 stations. Purpose of this giant mass commencement was not to award diplomas but to hear four commencement speakers of a calibre that rural school boards could not hope to match. Commissioner Studebaker and Secretary of the Interior Ickes were piped through from Washington; Columbia University...
...Mellon "industrial fellowship" has worked extraordinarily well. Last year "donors" gave $816,315. This financed 69 fellowships. Since 1911 almost 4,000 U. S. companies including Aluminum Company of America, Pennsylvania Railroad, Simmons Company (beds), Koppers Gas & Coke Company, Ward Baking Com pany, Cluett, Peabody & Company, Inc. (shirts, collars), Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, have paid the Mellon Institute $11,478,406 for research. Said Director Weidlein last week: "Most of the problems have been solved satisfactorily." Workers have produced 19 books, 143 bulletins, 744 research reports, 1,117 miscellaneous papers as a result of their work...
...work of the Forest, the oldest scientifically operated demonstration tract of its kind in America, has been substantially reorganized in the past year by Ward Shepard, Director, who took the post last May after serving in the United States Departments of the Interior and Agriculture...
With the ace pitcher, John Wood-ward, scheduled to start today, the Yardlings, fresh from victories over St. Mark's and Lawrence Academy, will meet the hard-hitting Holy Cross nine at three o'clock on the Soldiers Field diamond...