Word: quiteness
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...merchants that if their shops were not locked up by the strike's deadline, their windows would be smashed. Not a shop in Pekin was open after 3 p.m. Six hundred allied workers at Corn Products Refining Co. then voted to walk out. Other workers promised to quit in sympathy...
...Fundamentally it is an association of craft unions dominated by skilled workers. These fear that their pay differential would decrease if they had to do their wage bargaining along with unskilled workers. Having fought the A. F. of L. Executive Council for two years from within, Miner Lewis lately quit to fight it from without (TIME, Dec. 2). Head of the biggest single A. F. of L. union, he rounded up seven other A. F. of L. unions into a Committee For Industrial Organization. Purpose: to spread industrial unionism. Last month the A. F. of L. Executive Council, sitting...
...primary day the Longsters happily touched off the "Kingfish's" electoral cannon. Hours before the polls were scheduled to close, election officials quit counting the votes. Since radio reports had assured them that the primary was in the bag, they merely bundled up the ballots and sent them off to Baton Rouge for the official count due by law eight days after the voting. With accurate returns lacking, at least a 2-to-1 victory was certain. In life, Huey Long had never done so well for himself...
...evening ended with no answer to the question which has been bothering Manhattan for two months. Was this season to be Toscanini's last in the U. S.? Or was it only rumor that the Maestro was tired, eager to quit? If he did leave what would be the effect on music in Manhattan? Some took the stand that his presence has had its unfortunate reaction, that other conductors have been slighted because they lacked his consummate touch, that too many concertgoers have come to think more of a Toscanini performance than of the music that is played...
...months after he set to work at $25 a week in the Manhattan office of International Mercantile Marine Co. (TIME, April 1) John Jacob Astor III quit his job, was reported displeased with the shipping business as a career...