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...industrial union, the United Mine Workers, John L. was confident that he could organize the mass-production industries-and he made a spectacularly successful start. The C.I.O. spread strife and union buttons across the land with sit-down strikes and picket-line battles, and Republic Steel's Tom Girdler became a hero to some businessmen when he snapped: "I won't sign a contract with an irresponsible, racketeering, violent, communistic organization like the C.I.O...
NORMAN L. GIRDLER M/Sgt., U.S.A.F. Denver
...make his narrative natural, Rouse did away with poetic affectations, eliminated the "thee's" and "thou's" of earlier translators, edited such elaborate phrases as "Odysseus of many counsels answered her saying . . ." to "Odysseus answered . . ." He changed Poseidon, Girdler of the Earth, to Earthshaker Poseidon, called the Cyclops "Goggle-eyes" instead of "froward," transformed the "fair-tressed Dawn" into "welcome streaks of light." He restored some of Homer's humor by translating a few names literally (Acroneus, Ocyalus and Elatreus became Top-ship, Quicksea and Paddler), allowed his characters to say such things as "Daddy, dear...
...exception was Republic Steel Corp.'s Tom M. Girdler. In 1938, to find out whether Adirondack ore was rich enough to warrant its cost, he leased the Mineville and Port Henry properties from the Witherbee Sherman Corp. Girdler soon bought up another ancient mine and 115,000 acres in the mineral-rich Chateaugay district, dug shafts, built mills and narrow-gauge railroads. The Government helped him get labor. During the war it financed the building of his dormitory villages with churches, hospitals and a swimming pool. Last week Republic had an Adirondack working force of 1,550, and Girdler...
Walt Disney, film-father of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, told how the Reds had first tried to put a crimp in World-Girdler* Mickey, the traveling salesman of the U.S. When the Disney studios went on strike in 1937, he said, Labor Leader Herbert Sorrell admitted that Communist money had financed the walkout...