Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Mediation Board. So good & fair at his calling is William Leiserson that he is often asked to mediate outside the railway field. In his last such important chore, ruling that messenger boys come under the Wage & Hour Law, he did not forget to butter up big Western Union and other complaining companies with kindly words...
...renown. The old court room scene is hauled in--this time, of all things, because of a patents suit. And by the time the right side obtains justice, no one cares very much, even though it seems that Alexander is awarded one-fifth of all the stock of Western Union for his invention. All this may have been very important at the time but nowadays it makes for pretty innocuous entertainment. Henry Fonda furnishes adequate comic relief, and the rest of the supporting cast strives valiantly to make a poorly presented story interesting. But the odds are too great...
...only solution of the Western problem lies in the more efficient creation of power by machinery," claimed William Allen White, Editor of the Emporia Gazette, in the last of three talks in the New Lecture Hall last night...
After a year's study, Dr. Shadid called a meeting of his farmer patients, asked them to subscribe $50 each for stock in an association which would build a clinic and hospital in Elk City. Said he: "In western Oklahoma we do not have a single specialist in urology. We do not have a brain specialist, child specialist, orthopedic specialist. . . . Two thousand of you can pay $25 a year for your families, and with the $50,000 you will have collectively, you can hire eight or more good doctors and specialists who will provide you with free examinations, free...
...most serious stockholders' revolt in the history of 88-year-old Western Union Telegraph Co. was staged last fortnight by Stockholder Arthur C. Flatto, who popped up at the annual meeting (at which President Roy Barton White announced a 1938 loss of $1,637,000). Mr. Flatto declared he had proxies representing 250,000 shares and did not like the present management. After a stormy session (TIME, April 24), the meeting adjourned while the proxies were counted. Last week President White announced that the management slate received 531,812 votes, the Flatto opposition...