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...Privileges, No Contract. In a federal court in Washington Judge Richmond Keech slapped an injunction on Lewis, ordered him not to ask for certain arbitrary privileges in a coal contract until the NLRB could decide whether such demands were unfair labor practices under the Taft-Hartley law. Lewis hadn't specifically made such demands, but for more than eight months negotiations had been stalemated because everyone knew that Lewis wouldn't sign unless he got them. The privileges were: an illegal union shop; limiting of the miners' welfare fund to members of the U.M.W.; a clause saying...
...determining the distinction between a fact and a scruple. ... In attendance is Ching [Cyrus Ching, Federal conciliator], a truly remarkable man, who sees through the eyes of United States Rubber." The board read the letter and subpoenaed him. Still John declined to appear. Then Federal Judge Richmond B. Keech ordered him hauled into court...
Died. Ray Keech, 28, of Philadelphia, onetime truck driver, onetime (April, 1928) holder of the world's auto speed record (207.55 m. p. h.), winner of the Indianapolis race on Memorial Day (TIME, June 10); at Altoona, Pa., Speedway, in a four-car smash-up while traveling at a speed...
Long established, conservative, is the Manhattan brokerage house of F. B. Keech & Co., No. 52 Broadway. Newly opened and modernistic, however, is the Brooklyn office of this same concern. Designed by Mrs. H. Lawrence Carpenter, wife of Brooklyn Office Manager H. L. Carpenter, the Keech & Co. suite in the Williamsburg Savings Bank Building tower is fitted up like the interior of a yacht. Thus ships' bells chime out the hours, and sunlight enters not through windows but through portholes. The office has also a special room for women-traders...
Twelve of the 33 finished. Ray Keech of Philadelphia won. His Simplex Piston Ring Special averaged 97.583 m. p. h. This was slow driving for Winner Keech, who in 1928 held the world's speed record by moving 207.55 m. p. h. at Daytona Beach, Fla. But it was not easy, for he took the notoriously low-banked, treacherous Indianapolis turns without lowering his throttle. His skilled chauffering won him about...