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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most indignant was Breaker Bergoff at what happened to some of his men at Remington Rand's Tonawanda, N. Y. plant. Tycoon Rand wanted them to walk through picket lines, thus give loyal employes courage to follow. When the Bergoff huskies tried it, they were showered with bricks. "Rand," recounted Bergoff last week, "kind of put it over on me. I didn't know my men were getting into quite such a dangerous spot. He even wanted me to bring women up there, but I didn't do it, and I'm glad I didn...
...bread knife and obliged her. He was the first man to be condemned to death in Buffalo in six years. It was the duty of the sheriff to hang him. The young sheriff went home to his mother Ann, widow of a Presbyterian parson, in Holland Patent; N. Y., to ask what he should do. She advised him to pay a deputy $10 to act as hangman. He replied that he would not ask another man to do a dirty job like that...
Back last week from a Y. M. C. A. meeting in Indianapolis sped harried President Mordecai Johnson, persuaded the strikers to call a truce while he considered their demands: 1) better football equipment, 2) jobs for the team payable in board, 3) a football training table and dietitian, 4) an experienced full-time coach, 5) a team physician and trainer. Said a football spokesman, called upon to explain the Virginia Union desertion: "We were too hungry to get in there and battle those big country boys full of ham and kale. . . . Now this Lincoln team, they got a training table...
...school in Connecticut. Son of the 27th President of the United States, Charles Taft was initiated into Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Phi at Yale. He married the daughter of Ing Watch Company's president, fought for the United States a year in France, then earnestly fought for Y. M. C. A. and goal government in his native cinnati. Father of six children, Charles Taft will serve as a model for the figure of genuine Americanism. He believes in democracy and a Republican liberalism that will provide social security and do it without the spoils system of Jim Farley...