Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forehead protruding from a tangle of coarse, dark hair; small, dark, shiny eyes, and thick lips under the drooping mustache? Stambuliski has a sullen air which is sometimes lit up by a spark of jovial energy. Physically he is a butcher, with an intelligent eye; morally lie has an iron will at the beck of simple ideas, which are sometimes vague; much sullen conceit, more pride; a good dose of courage; no more scruples than absolutely required; the art, of flattering men's passions and of gaining their consent; a rustic, sardonic eloquence which persuades and reaches the inmost fibres...
...recent convention of the Iron and Steel Institute, moreover, Judge Gary, having approved the findings of a commission which upheld the twelve-hour day, delivered a homily on the necessity of religion for the working world. (TIME, June 4.) Last week the National Catholic Welfare Council (headed by Father Ryan), the federal Council of Churches (presided over by Robert E. Speer), and the Central Conference of Jewish Rabbis disregarded creeds and united in issuing a statement condemning utterly the "twelve-hour homily" of Judge Gary and the findings of the Iron and Steel Institute's commission. These bodies, representing...
...back as 1912 a committee headed by the late Stuyvesant Fish reported in favor of reducing the number of hours. In 1921 Judge Gary said: " We expect to make the elimination of the twelve-hour day complete during the next year." But the recent adverse report of the Iron and Steel Institute, according to the protest of the indignant churches, "shatters public confidence...
...necessity, the shortage of labor and the fact that a shorter shift would force up the price of steel. The strongest argument of the churches is that economic laws "cannot demand an equal position with the laws of justice." The protest concludes: "A further report is due from the Iron and Steel Institute?a report of a very different tenor." How soon the "report of a different tenor" will be issued Is unknown. Meanwhile the cry goes up: "How long, O Lord...
...Browning's home is in Ogden, Utah. He was born in 1855, and his genius runs in the family, for Jonathan Browning, his father, was a gunsmith in the Civil War period. John M. made his first gun at 13, of scrap iron in his father's shop. He patented his breech-loading rifle in 1879, a repeating rifle in 1884, and a box magazine in 1895. He holds in all 132 patents on rapid-fire weapons of all sizes, many of which are manufactured by the Winchester and Colt companies. His automatic guns have been adopted...