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Engaged. Ray Barbuti, U. S. Olympic middle-distance runner; and Marion Hicks, sister of Golfer Helen Hicks; at Hewlett, L...
...group protection, a fixed scale of wages to abolish discriminatory employment-such were the keynotes of a cry for the unionization of the U. S. aviation industry sounded last week by Dale ("Red") Jackson, part-possessor of the world's unofficial endurance refueling record (TIME. Aug. 12). With L. H. Atkinson, until recently sub-executive for Universal Air Lines, he sent out the first of 140,000 letters to pilots, mechanics, apprentices and student flyers to get them to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. They seek to promote brotherly fellowship, make working conditions safer, establish a standard...
...Adams was President. Grandmother Brown's forbearers were old Massachusetts stock who had moved west after the Revolution. She married one Daniel Brown, set up house with him in Amesville, Ohio, where he ran a general store. There four of her eight children were born. Then "Dan'l got the Western fever," and they moved to Iowa, to a farm near Keokuk...
Grandma Brown's last baby (the author's husband) was born when she was nearly 43, and her hair had turned gray. When their progeny grew up and left home. Grandma and Dan'l began to go places and do things: "in '93, like everybody else," they went to the World's Fair in Chicago. But Dan'l was getting along. He had a stroke, then another; soon he was almost helpless. Grandma Brown used to wash his feet for him. "But he would say to me, 'I hate to have you wash...
When Dan'l died in 1906, Grandma mourned him, then went on her travels. She visited her scattered family. She saw the sights of Washington. She went up Lookout Mountain and had dinner there...