Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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When he arrived at the Union station, onlookers were shocked at his appearance. All color had gone from his deflated cheeks. His eyelids drooped listlessly. He was unresponsive to sights and sounds. Dr. Francis Randall Hagnar, his physician, assured newsmen that Mr. Taft was in no pain. Helped out of the railroad car by four attendants, the sick man was placed in a rolling chair, too small for him. The onetime Chief Justice showed a faint flicker of a smile. News cameramen pressed rudely about him, exploded their flashlights before his unseeing eyes...
Demands of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union: abolition of 1,500 "sweatshops"; 10% wage increase; a 40-hour, five-day week; an impartial commission to settle disputes; unemployment insurance. Well heeled was the Union for this walkout; last summer it sold $250,000 worth of 5% strike bonds...
Events: 1776, Declaration of Independence; 1787, framing of the Constitution; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; 1845, admission of Texas as a state; 1846, Oregon boundary settlement (U. S.-Canadian northwest border set at 49° north latitude); 1850, admission of California to the Union; 1865, end of Civil War; 1908, the Panama Canal...
Sheldon Munson Griswold was born in Delhi 69 years ago. He went to Union College (1882) and General Theological Seminary. In 1885 he married a Schenectady girl. Leaving the simple life and worship of Delhi, he held several Episcopal pastorates in New York (Ilion, Little Falls, Hudson), adopted the extreme, elaborate ritualistic observances of the Anglo-Catholic group in the Episcopal Church. For the last 13 years he has been Suffragan Bishop of Chicago, a popular figure...
...Union Carbide...