Word: girdlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promises, to affirm that Wendell Willkie could and would keep his promises. They heard of a promise which had not been previously heralded: that Wendell Willkie would give labor full representation in his Government; of "a reasonable hope" that three pro-Willkie, hitherto antiC. I. O. steelmakers (Grace, Girdler, Weir) "will soon execute collective-bargaining contracts with...
...Ernest] Weir would be raising these millions of dollars to elect Mr. Willkie if he believed that Mr. Willkie was in fact a wholehearted supporter of collective bargaining? . . . (Recalling that on April 11, 1939 Willkie said: "If we are patient, we will see the time when men like Girdler are recognized as the true heroes of America.") "That is what Wendell Willkie thinks of Tom Girdler-a true American hero...
...groups, biggest profit-gainers were the steelmakers. No. 1 feast or famine industry, steelmen are now gorged, at practical capacity. No. 3 producer, bald, tough Tom Girdler's Republic cleared a record $6,184,000 in the third quarter, up from $2,815,000 in the same quarter of 1939. With preferred dividends being earned 32 times over, his conservative directors last week paid all back dividends, planned to buy the shares for cancellation, thus clearing the way for common dividends. Like many a defense industry's preferred stocks, the price of Republic's has tripled since...
...While Green and Lewis still sulked, C.I.O. and A.F. of L. sub-chieftains worked smoothly together under the Defense Commission's Labor Coordinator: 1. Frances Perkins. 2. Daniel J. Tobin. 3. David Dubinsky. 4. Tom Girdler. 5. Sidney Hillman...
...active light-steel markets than National's and Inland's mills in Detroit and Chicago; and before he had a chance to compete, the 1938 depression hit him. Meanwhile he won the good will of tough steel labor (which had been a long time forgetting tough Tom Girdler's regime at J. & L.) by following U. S. Steel into a C. I. O. contract...