Word: girdler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of U. S. labor. In 18 months it 1) opened company towns to union organizers, 2) jacked the Amalgamated membership to 500,000 (according to its own claims), 3) obtained contracts from 445 steel companies, among them U. S. Steel. Only a handful of concerns, including Tom M. Girdler's Republic Steel Corp. and other embattled members of the "Little Steel" entente, have held out against the S. W. O. C. attack, and only then at the cost of a long and hard-fought strike...
...Golden Triangle. That the S. W. O. C. had picked up a trick or two from Fascist and Communist propagandists was evident from the huge posters of brawny steelworkers, the heroic pictures of Phil Murray and Leader Lewis. Conspicuously dangling by the neck was an effigy of Tom Girdler...
...Cornelius D. Scully polled 122,400 votes to the 92,800 for Robert N. Waddell, onetime Carnegie Tech football coach. S. W. O. C. mayors and burgesses were swept into office in the historic steel towns of Ambridge, Brackenridge, Clairton, Donora, Duquesne, Monessen, Rankin. Even in Aliquippa, where Tom Girdler made his name as a Jones & Loughlin executive and where until four years ago there were only eight registered Democrats, the S. W. O. C. candidate, George L. Kiefer, defeated Republican Mayor Morgan H. Sohn...
...believe that the Harvard students knowingly gave their money to an ambulance to be used in a demonstration that advocated the assassination (by strangling) of Tom Girdler...
...Girdler, by reason of his splendid stand for right over might, won a victory for "the right to work, as well as the right to strike," which puts him, definitely, as The Man of the Year...