Word: gormanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strike Leader Francis J. Gorman called his executive committee to Washington and the strike was promptly and unanimously voted off on the President's say-so. "An overwhelming victory!" cried Leader Gorman. "One of the greatest in all labor history!" Labor had gained, according to Mr. Gorman in the proclamation he sent to his followers, "every substantial thing" which it could hope to win by the strike...
...report of the Winant Committee, in other eyes than his, failed to bear out all of Leader Gorman's claims of victory. Because the textile strike was affecting only about half the whole industry, because public patience with strikers was beginning to run short, many a wiseacre was convinced that Labor had seized enthusiastically upon the Winant report as a graceful means of ending what otherwise would probably fizzle out in failure...
Strikers who expected the Government to feed them were disappointed everywhere except in Lowell, Mass. Said Leader Gorman: "We are now preparing for at least a month of struggle to win the strike...
...Yorkers were suddenly reminded one day last week that they once (1911-17) had a U. S. Senator named James A. O'Gorman. The kindly, white-bearded old gentleman spent a quarter hour before a grand jury, trying to stall off an indictment of the executive committee of defunct New York Title & Mortgage Co. for allegedly issuing false and deceptive statements in connection with the sale of guaranteed mortgages. Now 74, a trustee of New York University, Mr. O'Gorman emerged from the grand jury chamber with tears in his eyes. A little later...
...indictment of Messrs. Baker, Harriman, O'Gorman et al. was the first wholesale action against any of the big Manhattan guaranteed mortgage companies since the Moreland Act investigation began (TIME, Feb. 5). While hundreds of old people who had lost their all in this type of investment took to the streets as pickets demanding action. District Attorney William Copeland Dodge lately dropped all his other duties to be free to prosecute the guaranteed mortgage cases...