Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...History and Literature Prize of $50, "for the member of the Junior Class in Harvard College who shows the greatest promise among undergraduates who concentrate in the field of History and Literature," was awarded in May, 1928, to Charles Leonard Lundin, of New Bedford, Class...
Last week the spokesmen of 27,000 textile workers of New Bedford, Mass., said NO to the State, citizens, manufacturers. Ever since early April, when a 10% cut in cotton mill wages was announced, the seven unions of the New Bedford Textile Council have conducted a strike (TIME, Aug. 13). The former average wage of $19 a week was. they said, scant enough; $17 was unthinkable. Recently the State Board of Conciliation & Arbitration, the Citizens Mediation Committee, decided to compromise. They proposed only a 5% wage cut. The New Bedford Manufacturers Association agreed. Then the textile unions rejected the proposal...
...Socialist district. He has been president of the Boston Educational Forum and is on the executive board of the Young People's Socialist League. A member of the defense committee of the Sacco-Vanzetti case, he also was appointed confidential secretary of the general strike committee of the New Bedford Textile Council...
Editors headlined Dr. Cadman as world's first "radio pastor." For the most part, this was religio-journalistic enthusiasm. As many a radiowner knows, Dr. Cadman preached from the Bedford (Brooklyn) branch of the Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoons, last year, over an 18-station web. And his new and exciting title of "radio pastor" further lost significance when it became known that Rabbi Wise also would preach, that Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick & Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, able Manhattan divines, might soon be given microphonal pulpits by the National Broadcasting Co., sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches...
...officials who will lead the activities of the Harvard Thomas-for President Club in its forthcoming campaign was officially announced last night at the organization headquarters. W. C. Thompson 1 Dv., who was elected president of the newly formed organization, is just returned from a summer spent in New Bedford where he was engaged in the bitter struggle carried on by the New Bedford Textile Council against the ten percent wage cut which the textile bosses attempted to enforce last spring. He was arrested four times on the picket line. The officers who will compose the executive force...