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Aces Hockey Club (Regina, Sask.)

  • Collectivité

Founded by Clarence Mahon, who also served as coach and manager.

Participated in the Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League from 1938 to 1943.

Regina City Studio

  • Collectivité

At one time the proprietor was J. J. Thompson and operated at 1921 South Railway Street in Regina.

Holt Manufacturing Company

  • Collectivité
  • 1892-1925

The Holt Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1892 in California with Charles H. Holt, Benjamin Holt, Frank A. Holt, G. H. Cowie, and G. L. Dickenson as directors. Based in Stockton, California, the company manufactured agricultural machinery, beginning with horse-drawn equipment such as tractors, combines and harvesters, and over the years developed steam-powered and gasoline-powered models. The steam-powered vehicles were heavy and were prone to sinking into soft earth and in response the company began to investigate the use of multiple wheels and then to the use of tracks. Holt Manufacturing was in a bitter rivalry with Best Manufacturing, this led in 1905 to Daniel Best filing a lawsuit against Holt for patent infringement of the power take-off design of Best's engines. Best and Holt reached an out-of-court settlement in 1908 that led to Best's retirement, the sale of his business to Holt with the conditions that Best's son Clarence Leo Best would receive an ownership stake and would serve as president of Holt's San Leandro facilities in California. Best's son left Holt in 1910 and formed a new rival company C.L. Best Gas Traction Company. In 1909 the company purchased the facility of the defunct farm implement maker Colean Manufacturing Company in East Peoria, Illinois, and changed changed the name of the company to Holt Caterpillar Company, incorporating in Illinois and California on January 12, 1010. The East Peoria became the eastern operations of the Holt Manufacturing Company, and it began exporting tractors to Argentina, Canada, and Mexico. In 1913, Holt merged its various companies into the Holt Manufacturing Company with subsidiaries the Stockton Wheel Co.; the Houser and Haines Manufacturing Company of Stockton; the Aurora Engine Company of Stockton; the Canadian Holt Company, Limited of Calgary; the Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton; and the Holt Caterpillar Company of Peoria, Illinois. Although during World War One Holt developed heavy artillery tractors and a steam-powered tank, in response to a limited market for many of their products after the war led the company shifting focus to smaller-modelled agricultural machinery to road-building equipment.

In 1925, Holt Manufacturing and C.L. Best Gas Traction Company merged to form Caterpillar Tractor Co., with Clarence Leo Best as Chief Executive Officer.

University of California, Los Angeles

  • Collectivité
  • 1919-

The California State Legislature enabled the establishment of a southern branch of California State Normal School in 1881, and it opened August 1882. In 1887, the branch became independent and changed its name to the Los Angeles State Normal School. School administrators began in 1917 to lobby the state to become a campus of the University of California, but encountered resistant from University of California alumni in the legislature and the president of the University (Benjamin Ida Wheeler.). Upon a new president of the university being hired in 1919 (David Prescott Barrows), the efforts became successful and in May 1919 a bill was signed into law that permitted the acquisition of land and buildings, and changed the LA Normal School to a southern branch of the University of California and started operating in September 1919. In February 1927 it changed its official name to University of California at Los Angeles and in 1958 to University of California, Los Angeles. From 1919 to 1951 the institution operated as an off-ste department of the University of California, with a presiding officer holding the title provost that reported to the main campus in Berkeley. After 1951, UCLA was given equal status with University of California, Berkeley and established a presiding officer that was designated chancellor.

Order of Railroad Telegraphers (U.S.)

  • Collectivité
  • 1891-1965

During a meeting of telegraphers representing the major American railroads on June 9, 1886, the Order of Railway Telegraphers of North America (ORT) was founded with the aim of primarily functioning as a fraternal organization and not necessarily as a union, including in its founding document restrictions on members to strike. However, its membership soon became more desirous that the Order take a more assertive actions to achieve better wages and working conditions, such that by 1891 the ORT's constitution was changed to explicitly make it a "protective" organization and included a provision to allow strikes if negotiations with the railroads were deemed unsuccessful. This change in focus coincided with a simplification of its name to Order of Railroad Telegraphers.

A decline of the railroad industry and the perceived obsolescence of the telegraph during the 1950s and 1960s led to a reduced workforce from which the Order could draw members, this in turn led to a reduction of its influence on the industry. To broaden its appeal and its membership base, the Order changed its name in 1965 to the Transportation Communications Employees Union, which in turn in 1969 merged into the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees.

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