Word: bergoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suppose a body-builder like Bernarr Macfadden took a tip from a professional strikebreaker like Bergoff, and then prospered like nobody's business until he turned into a potentate like the late, generally unlamented Sir Basil Zaharoff. On such an alarming supposition John Stuart Martin bases General Manpower, his first novel...
...particularly annoying to the handsome, greying judge was the Government's plea to the jury to ignore the Court's charge. "[A judge] may fall into error," said Judge Hincks. "He may be reversed. But ignored-never." The jury did not ignore the Judge, pronounced Messrs. Rand & Bergoff not guilty. Said Mr. Rand, to whom the verdict came as a present on his 51st birthday: "This case is of vital importance to American business." Said Mr. Bergoff: "I'm glad justice has been vindicated...
...Rand "merely laughed," continued Mr. Bergoff, and explained that everything was fine because he had been inside the plant taking motion pictures of the fracas, which he intended to offer as proof of strikers' violence in seeking an injunction against the strike...
...accuse him, yes," replied Mr. Bergoff. "But I guess everything's all right. Rand's all right." His pay for the Remington Rand job, he said...
Hailed before NLRB as a sample Rand-Bergoff employe was hog-necked, 260 lb., Sam Harris, better known as "Chowder-head" Cohen. A ubiquitous character whose appearance and language have made him the delight of the Press, he waddled into the news last winter as boss "fink" in New York City's elevator strike, again last autumn as witness before the Senate's civil liberties committee, again last month when he was set upon by striking seamen (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week he was quickly entered on the Board's books as a "hostile witness." A strikebreaker...