Word: fricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers locked out of Henry Clay Frick's Homestead mill near Pittsburgh captured a boatload of Pinkerton guards, won a historic industrial battle but subsequently lost their first attempt to force labor unions on the highly individualistic steel industry. In 1919 a Chicago railway organizer named William Zebulon Foster tried his hand at organizing Steel. This attempt degenerated because American Federation of Labor unions were more anxious to protect their individual interests than to bring steelworkers into the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. As in 1919, the great 1936 fight to unionize 500,000 steelworkers will...
...protege of Willie Frick, Arena Skating Master, outdistanced his competitors by his jumping and smooth transition of blade edges. It was this, combined with his nice carriage and ice personality which won over the judges in his behalf...
Adolf Hitler was by no means the only bigwig in Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week. His entourage included Air Minister Göring, Minister of Propaganda Goebbels, War Minister von Blomberg, Julius Streicher, Interior Minister Frick, Storm Troop Leader Lutze and almost every other important Nazi in Germany. Nonetheless, Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall of the New York Times, which last autumn gave the loudest bursts of publicity to Jeremiah T. Mahoney's efforts to have the U. S. withdraw from the 1936 Olympic Games (TIME, Nov. 4), felt justified in writing: ". . . Not the slightest evidence of religious, political or racial...
Only the most strenuous remonstrance by Economics Minister Dr. Hjalmar Schacht obtained respite last week for Germany's 25,000 Jewish traveling salesmen whom Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick would deprive of their licenses. "Jewish traveling salesmen," according to Dr. Frick, "tell stories and spread rumors all over the Fatherland which are contrary to the welfare of the nation...
Shuffling past all these at a special preview last week went Andrew W. Mellon, his daughter Mrs. David Kilpatrick Bruce. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Junius Morgan, Miss Helen Frick and five members of her family, besides some 700 other socialites, to the great delight of society reporters. Almost unnoticed in the pack was a little old lady in a black hat: Mrs. Andrew Carnegie setting foot in the Frick house for the first time in her life...