Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republican* Democrats Arthur R. Robinson- Evans Woolen! Oswald Ryan Ward B. Hiner A. G. Graham James R. Norrels The Indiana primaries fall on May 4. According to the state law, unless one candidate receives a majority the nomination is decided by a state convention. So the Democratic nominee for the long term and the Republican nominee for the short term may be chosen in that...
Died. William Madison Wood, 68, famed founder and retired President of the American Woolen Co., world's largest textile concern, son of a Portugese sea cook named Jacintho (who later took the name William Jason Wood), at Daytona Beach, Fla., by shooting himself through the mouth. He had long had ill health...
...American Woolen Co., large New England textile manufacturers, had announced a 10% reduction in wages. Other smaller textile manufacturers followed their leader. President Green sent off two identical letters, one to Andrew G. Pierce, President of the American Woolen Co., the other to Robert Amory, President of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers...
...Coolidge thought the situation serious enough to give his own interpretation of the causes which forced the reduction in wages. He listed: 1) overexpansion of the woolen industry during the War, so that now, with Southern mills producing the coarser fabrics, and the finer ones being imported from abroad, the New England mills are in difficulties; 2) a change in fashions that made worsteds unpopular during the past season...
...sold by men, and we women buy any old fool thing they give us without even asking where it came from. The vested interests of the world are tied up in clothes and so is politics. France sends us silken garments and so we won't wear the woolen things that English mills turn out, and recently we had to gather our cloaks together with our hands, because buttons were not manufactured in France...