Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel R. Rosoff arrived in Manhattan from Russia for the second time in his life. On his first arrival he was an 11-year-old potato-peeler. Last week he occupied princely staterooms on the Berengaria. In Russia he, a potent Manhattan contractor, turned down a 200-million-dollar subway and waterworks contract for Moscow, because the U. S. does not recognize the Soviets...
...campaign was rough, personal. Hague called Burkitt "a contemptible scoundrel and carpet-bagger." The question of whether Mrs. Burkitt worked or not became a political issue. The Fusionist candidates-a nurseryman, a plumbing contractor, a motor salesman, an attorney, a roofing contractor-were obscured by the battle of Burkitt v. Hague...
Another step in the direction of the Five-Day Week, predicted by Contractor Fred T. Ley (TIME, May 6) and many another observer of U. S. labor, was taken last week when the Manhattan Structural Steel Board of Trade granted the Five-Day Week to 2,500 ironworkers. An increase in pay-per-hour insured workers of no decrease in wages. Manhattan electricians and bricklayers had previously won the Five-Day Week battle...
Died. James Pilkington, 78, of Manhattan, oldtime policeman, Civil War veteran, contractor, boxer, wrestler, trapshooter, sculler, oarsman, bowler, trackman; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1879, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Athlete Pilkington won the national amateur championship in both boxing and wrestling on the same night...
Died. John Ennis, 87, of Stamford, Conn., oldtime contractor, Civil War veteran, walker, skater, swimmer, crack shot, boxer; of pneumonia; in Stamford. In 1910, he broke the transcontinental walking record, hiking from Coney Island to San Francisco in 80 days...