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...England spindles have gone to the scrap heap in the last few weeks. ... No management is competent to operate a plant like this, handicapped with . . . $2.56 [per week] average wage differential, which is particularly fatal to us as we have no mills in the South. . . . The two shift policy helps neither owners nor workers. . . . Until night work is stopped, neither the South nor the North will prosper. Domestic consumption does not warrant it, and our foreign market is vanishing...
...brightening Wall Street sentiment had nothing to do with a sudden shift in the internal affairs of the New York Stock Exchange, which is something of a world to itself. The prospect of a hot contest for the presidency in the coming Exchange elections disappeared when Richard Whitney decided not to run for a sixth term. Since it was a foregone conclusion that the nominating committee would not pick Mr. Whitney to succeed himself, his friends were loudly urging him to break all precedent by standing on an independent ticket in order to vindicate his turbulent administration (TIME, April...
...have had something to do with the trip. It has been prophesied that in the new order athletics will be saner and more like what prevails in England. There may be a solution for much that troubles educators in having the teachers run the studies and letting the boys shift for themselves when they are at play. --The Boston Globe...
Within one mile we have 28 adults and children entirely cut off to shift for themselves without any mail...
...sooner had all Moscow's fire apparatus failed to put out the Krassin Pencil Factory conflagration in which 29 Russians were burned to death last week than the State rushed surviving employes over to the Sacco & Vanzetti Pencil Factory where they were put to work as an extra shift...