Word: frick
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Like two other names now carved in marble, Carnegie and Frick, the Mellons began their rise amid the soot and grime of Pittsburgh. Born on a farm in Ireland, Paul's grandfather, Thomas, broke away from both the homeland and the land itself to become a lawyer, judge, banker and father of eight children. In the post-Civil War era the Mellons gained control of most of what was worth owning in Pittsburgh, which was a fair part of what was worth owning in industrial America...
DIED. Ford Christopher Frick, 83, low-keyed baseball commissioner (1951-65) and president of the National League (1934-51); in Bronxville, N.Y. As commissioner, Frick remained on the sidelines, viewing himself primarily as an administrator in the employ of team owners. As National League president, however, he acted quickly and effectively in 1947 after Jackie Robinson broke the color line and some of the St. Louis Cardinals threatened to strike rather than play against him. Firmly telling the Cardinals, "You cannot do this because this is America," Frick quashed the threat...
...play treats, in a somewhat idealized fashion, Emma's long standing partnership with Alexander Berkman. Berkman in 1892 fails in an attempt to assasinate Henry Clay Frick, and throughout Berkman's 14 years in federal prison, Emma strengthens her position in the anarchist movement. But we are left with the feeling that when Berkman is finally released, he has lost his usefulness to the movement. In actuality, Emma and Alexander both continued their American leadership until they were deported to their native Russia in 1919 at the behest of U.S. Attorney General Palmer...
...wonder the flow of the game was so bad. Each player skated as if he needed double-runners. It was as if the guys were doing poor Mr. Frick imitations by taking spectacular spills, especially as they flew head-first into the benches...
Exploitation of labor continued for generations. As late as the 1890s, Henry C. Frick, after breaking a strike at the Carnegie Steel Works in Homestead, Pa., reduced wages and re-established an 84-hour work week. At the other end of the scale, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and other capitalists accumulated immense fortunes, in part because they proved Adam Smith wrong in thinking that an unregulated market could not be monopolized. In 1912, Woodrow Wilson, no radical, lamented that "we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless...