Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last minute the old National Labor Board issued a new set of election rules which Mr. Weir rejected. Thereupon in December 1933 he held an election of his own which resulted in a thumping victory for Weirton Steel's company union. Disgruntled leaders of Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, an American Federation of Labor affiliate, let out a mighty howl that they had been tricked and cheated at the plant polls, that Mr. Weir's union was owned hand & foot by the company, that the steelmaster was a ruthless violator of Section 7a. Mr. Weir's attorneys...
...knows whose fault it is that Soviet railways remain in an appalling mess, Comrade Andreyev was honored by being appointed one of the four potent secretaries of the Communist Party Central Committee. Into the curiously bloody and repugnant job of Commissar of Railways, Dictator Stalin last week put big. iron-nerved Comrade Lazar Kaganovich who has just built the first eight miles of Moscow's projected 50-mile subway...
Focal points of the meet for Harvard will be the mile-run, the 1000, and the performance of Eddie Calvin. Calvin does an iron man stunt tomorrow night, competing in four events -- the dash, 300, relay, and broad jump. If the can hit the form of his Sophomore year, the meet is Harvard's Running against Yale two years ago, he won 15 points by taking firsts in the 100, 200, and broad jump...
Cornell looks for her own iron man, Bob Linders, to upset Calvin. Linders took first in both dash and 300 last year, and this year he adds the relay to his list of performances. Should the two men split enough points, the meet will have to be decided on the mile...
...stone, and dynamite couldn't move him. The English workmen were afraid of him and kept their distance. "The devil's in that Peter," they would say. "Don't go near him." And on he would scribble, hunched like a great bear on a pile of pig iron...