Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thorniest problem of all must wait for solution until after the plebiscite. From 1871 until 1914, when both the Saar and Alsace-Lorraine were German, an agreement was reached between the two districts as to the joint consumption of coal and iron, the respective product of each. Neither district, Mr. Florinsky feels, could have flourished without the cooperation of the other, which is to his mind proved by the fact that it was not long after the World War that the old agreement was revived, despite France's receiving Alsace-Lorraine, and the Saar's being controlled by the League...
...Around the President's desk last week assembled Myron Taylor of U. S. Steel, Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem, Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic, many another steelmaster. Also on hand were Michael F. Tighe of the Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers and William Green of the American Federation of Labor. They were all at the White House to report a deadlock over steel labor peace. The sticking point: Labor's demand that if a majority in a steel plant voted for the A. F. of L. union, the union should then represent all employes. The President told them...
...Rats & Vermin!" Dynamite at the Conference was Rumania's wild-eyed little Jan Motza, a leader of the Iron Guard which is Fascist in the loosest meaning of the term. "I come from a prison full of vermin and rats!" dramatically announced the Iron Guardsman. "Yes, my Fascist friends, from vermin and rats...
Last week the following were news: Highest council in the steel industry is American Iron & Steel Institute, whose 32 directors administer the Steel Code. When President Robert Patterson Lamont, onetime (1929-32) Secretary of Commerce, resigned last year, the Iron & Steel Institute postponed electing a new president pending reorganization. Its members wanted an active steel executive at their head and a far-flung research staff to keep the industry and the public abreast of Steel's developments. Last week, its reorganization apparently completed, the Institute announced the election of Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem Steel as president...
...incurring heavy casualty lists in utterly destroying his adversary refutes itself." Biographer McCormick lays many a florid wreath at his paladin's feet: "A hero, without fear and without reproach, who needed neither the panoply of war nor the customary mannerisms of command to buoy up his iron will." He sums up his admiration by declaring Grant the superior of Napoleon himself...