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Only 300 workers at a Western Electric distributing house in Watertown left their jobs in this state, but operators and clerks are reportedly ready to honor Western Electric picket lines if they are set up at phone exchanges. No picketing has been in evidence here so far, but indications are that it may start Wednesday...
ROBERT C. SIMS Watertown, Mass...
...that time, some in abandoned "Tory Row" houses, and the rest in barracks which bulged out on the Common. Then came that memorable day, July 2, 1775, when General Washington--decked out in "blue cost, buff under-dress, and rich epaulette on each shoulder"--marched down the road from Watertown. At this point, historians have gone to all extremes to affirm or deny that Washington accepted command from Artemus Ward under a certain elm (The Washington Elm). The most convincing account shows that because of poor weather and other complications, Washington could not have accepted command under this...
...group has set the nomination of the Eisenhower ticket as its goal. It hopes to get "Ike" the local district, which includes Cambridge, and parts of Somerville, Watertown, and East Boston. Another of its objectives is the securing of the 10 delegates a large for him. It also hopes to have him nominated at the Harvard Young Republican Club's mock convention...
...were, released on Thursday, November 15, after $2,000 in ball had been posted for each. Bergin's father, an undertaker in Watertown, Connecticut, put up the ball...