Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Jammed to suffocation last week was the Union's rather dingy hall, as there rose to make his maiden speech, a youth (18 years) of pink and white complexion, a nervous but determined fledgling, Randolph Churchill...
First came alarming reports from Rumania's Bessarabian frontier that just across the border Soviet troops were mobilizing. In Moscow the Province of Bessarabia is regarded as an Alsace-Lorraine, basely stolen by Rumania while the young Soviet Union was battling for its very life in 1918. In the atlases used by Soviet schoolchildren Bessarabia is shown as still part of Russia, labeled: "Temporarily under Rumanian Military Occupation." Sooner or later blood is bound to be spilled over this issue, and reports of the Soviet mobilization made Prime Minister Maniu fear the spilling might begin last week...
...rail president is more popular in Washington than B. & O.'s Daniel Willard. He first won the favor of President Harding in 1922 when he promptly settled on equitable terms the great shipmen's strike for his line while other carrier presidents were stubbornly bucking the union. White House rail patronage was shifted from the Pennsylvania to the B. & O. where it remains to this day for all presidential excursions westward. The B. & O. carried Herbert Hoover back and forth across the continent during his campaign, is today his favorite road...
Merger. The union of the two companies would create a concern with assets of about $900,000,000, with earnings far above those of Standard of California, about equal to Standard of Indiana, but below Standard of New Jersey. The two companies would distribute petroleum products equal to about 9% of the total U. S. consumption. Especially potent would be the new combination in battling the Royal Dutch-Shell group which has been engaged in combat with Standard of New York both here and abroad...
...National Championship Bird Dog Trials, run at Grand Junction every year, are the most important in the U. S.; next come the Free-for-All, won a month ago by Mary Blue at Union Springs, Ala. Correspondingly important are two western trials, the Manitoba and the All-America, run in Saskatchewan every September, in which prairie chicken instead of quail is the game. Elsewhere in the U. S., approximately 160 minor field trials, including derby championships, were held last year...