Organized labor demands and the Gompers record in McClure's
The November issue of McClure's features Samuel Gompers on organized labor and its definite demands. It argues that "wants" signals concrete goals rather than mere wishes, highlighting rising agitation and confidence in labor's aims.
What Else In November McClure's
Contents for November 1968 list frontispiece Augustus Ste Gaudens familiar letters and works by John Fleming Wilson Samuel Gompers and fragments of fiction including Caroline and Her Notebook Soper Scotty and Summer's Close. Poems by Madison Cawein S. H. Kemper and a feature on the Vanderbilt fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augustus Ste. Gaudens
Rose Standish Nichols
John Fleming Wilson
Thomas Meena
Organized Labor
Samuel Gompers
Caroline
Her
Claude C. Washburn
James Hamlin
Gardner Soper Scotty
Colin McKay
Gordon McCouch
Summer
Madison Cawer
Forest Fires and Forestry Progress Across American States
A sweeping account traces costly fires from New Jersey to Michigan and Minnesota, highlighting losses, firefighting costs, and wartime-like public urgency. It cites Roosevelt, Pinchot, and Oswald while noting rising forestry programs, reforestation efforts, and the economic value of trees including timber, poles, and coppice crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Picknicker
Adirondacks
Maine
Minnesota
Val Forest
New Jersey
Roosevelt
Congress
Michigan
Texas
M. Gifford Pinchot
United States
New York
Wisconsin
Prussia
France
Bavaria
Rockies
Felix
Oswald
Peruvian
Rio de San Pedro
Atacama
Ibrahim Pasha
Upper
Egypt
Catalpa
Holmdell
Origin of Welsh er and the welshing term in slang
The article traces the word welsher to German roots and explains its contemptuous use for a person who dodges money, especially bets on horse racing. It discusses linguistic history from German walseh toWelsh and links to Guelf and Ghibelline factions, noting German poetry and German-American usage shaping the term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Wales
Italy
British Isles
Cimra
Waiblingen
Hohen- Staaten
Rhein
Rhine
Schneckenburger
Ernst Moritz Arndt
America
Fragmentary Fiction Teasers and Names in Mixed Prose
A garbled listing of story titles and authors appears, naming works by Jack London Alice Brown Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and Irving Bacheller, with scattered fragments about themes of love, empires, and a western metropolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sundance
Jack London
The
Desert
Alice Brown
Turkey
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McClure
Samuel
Gompers
McClure’s
Augustus St. Gauders
Vanderbilt
Burton J. Hendrick
Oliver
Casper Day
W. T. Benda
Bugle Call
S. H. Kemper
Albert Kinross
Andre Castaigne
Lovings Bend
Edgar Beecher Bronson
Maynard Dixon
Behring Beach
Helen Green
FO W. Fitzpatrick
W. G. Fitz-Gerald
Indiana
John D. Brown
State Forestry Association
Pacific Coast
California
Filbert Roth
Ann Arbor
William Wallace Whitelock
Howe
Glass House
Florence Morse Kingsley
Mng
Mary Heaton
Rebecca Harding Davis
Mary Raymond
Shipman Andrews
Irving Bacheller
Life
Dr Vtous Hewselit
Everel
Paward Hale
Thee
Twelve Department
Seven Hundred
Woman's Home
Madison