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Boston critics were permitted to view the controversial play last night, along with 200 disabled veterans, as guests of the HDC, in view of the opening of "High Button Shoes," which will command the reviewers' eyes tonight...
Having failed to cripple the exchanges, Keefe threatened a "general strike" of all the brokerage houses in the Street. By week's end he surprised three houses, Shields & Co., E. F. Button & Co. and Bache & Co., by calling strikes and picketing them. Two of them hadn't even suspected that they had any unionists on their staffs. Actually, they had only a few. At Hutton, only 18 of 325 employees walked out. It looked as if Dave Keefe faced a long and probably a losing fight. Said Stock Exchange President Emil Schram: "We are prepared to function indefinitely...
...room, has his bottle of ale sent up, apparently enjoying and certainly inviting hostility. When asked by a Manhattan newspaperman (a man he had known for 20 years) what made him prefer Johnny Pesky at third base and Vern Stephens at shortstop, McCarthy snapped: "I just pushed a button and they came out that way." Marse Joe has been called a push-button manager by sportwriters-and dislikes it as strongly as the late John McGraw resented being called "Muggsy...
Clem Attlee waved his honorary union card and assured the grinning pressmen: "It's O.K." Then the Prime Minister pushed a little button, and the presses at Odhams' , started to roll. The London Daily Herald (circ. 2,131,824), British Labor's official newspaper, was 10,000 issues...
...coal strike, the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. let it be known that it had conducted successful experiments with a new machine which cuts, crumbles and loads coal in one continuous operation. The machine promised to revolutionize the mining industry, which is already highly mechanized, and make mere button-pushers out of miners...