Word: girdler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answered flatly by Tom M. Girdler, board chairman & president of Republic Steel, who fired a Manhattan meeting of steelmen to lusty applause by saying: "Before I spend the rest of my life dealing with William Green, I'm going to raise apples and potatoes. . . . We are . . . willing to deal with our own employes. . . . We are not going to deal with the Amalgamated or any other professional union, even if we have to shut down...
...Schwab. Thereupon the stockholders took a vote of confidence in priceless Mr. Schwab, only five dissenting. Rail orders were up, current operations were 52% of capacity against an average for the industry of 47%, said. President Grace. "We earned a profit on the preferred in March," he added. Bull Girdler. Republic Steel's President Tom M. Girdler also had a bullish report when he went before his stockholders in Jersey City. His company was almost out of the red, operating at 55% of capacity against an average of only 36.9% last year. "It looks as though we will have...
Guiding this young (incorporated in 1928) company's affairs is its creator, youngish Tom Huston, publicized as "The Farmer Boy Who Became Peanut King." It would be a mistake to call Peanut King Huston "Thomas," for like Republic Steel's Tom Girdler he is simply, proudly Tom. The bronze nameplate on his desk bears only the three-letter word: TOM. The company points out that this is very expressive of his character...
...tremendous companies, but just as great as the problems of organization are those of obtaining capable executives. When Cyrus Stephen Eaton (no steelman) last week announced the final details of the merger between his steel companies, the head of the new Republic Steel Corp. was of course Tom Mercer Girdler whom, three months ago, he snatched from the presidency of Jones & Laughlin Steel (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week Jones & Laughlin announced that a man had been obtained to fill the Girdlerless post of presidency. He is George Gordon Crawford, who has been president of Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co., large...
Normally Mr. Girdler is an even-tempered gentleman. But what he considers injustice "raises his dander." Forthwith he last week fired a fusillade of protesting telegrams. Most significant were the brace which went to Kentucky's Senator Alben William Barkley and Representative Maurice Hudson Thatcher urging them instantly to remind President Hoover and Secretary Lamont of the Hoover opposition against Government competition with private business, to appeal for continued Government purchase and support of private helium...