Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makeup pay" plan to bring their wages up to 24 hours a week if actual employment falls below that minimum. Its workers, depending on length of service, will be able to draw 54 to 120 hours' pay to make up below-minimum employment. Armstrong's President Henning Webb Prentis Jr., one of the more vociferous U. S. Big Businessmen, said the plan was "experimental," would be tried out at least through...
Meantime, remote and mum, the Vice President hunted deer and superintended the digging of two new wells on his 23,000-acre ranch in Webb Countv...
...Webb Book Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn...
...study of the "rise and fall" of the British labor movement, is an urbane, inquisitional chronicle of missed opportunities, compromises, retreats, timidities, defeats. These all are traced to one original sin: The adoption by British labor of the "British" evolutionary, "substitute" socialism taught by the Fabians under Sydney Webb and George Bernard Shaw, instead of the "scientific socialism" of Karl Marx. The Fabians were not consciously malicious or cowardly, says Strachey, they were merely ignorant, got their socialist wires crossed because they did not know what a capitalist State was all about. They said the State was "a great league...
...business executives to a conference with the professors. Three critics of business-Professors George Sylvester Counts, F. Ernest Johnson and Edward Hartman Reisner-thereupon started the fur flying. Four businessmen hit back-Mark M. Jones, president of Akron Belting Co.; George Harrison Houston, president of Baldwin Locomotive Works; Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president of Armstrong Cork Co.; Dr. Harold Stonier, executive manager of American Bankers Association...