Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world's work by measures more authoritative than books. Commenting on one of these men last week, a foundry superintendent said as follows: "When I was asked to put your student on our cupola gang, I thought he would be doing well if he stood the pig iron carrying about three hours. Well, I forgot about him and didn't think of him again for three days. I then found him on the job and immediately transferred him to another place where he could learn another situation. In a few minutes the cupola foreman came around and asked what...
...defeat. Germany came out of the war practically unscathed, except in man-power; she was not crushed, but checked for a time in her headlong career. Even the 'rebellion," and the setting up of a Republic can at the last avail little against the popularity of the "blood and iron" theory as vindicated by Bismarck in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles...
...nominations and victories. It is their business to befuddle and deceive the voters and then to produce majorities. It is to parties so controlled that the nation turns today in time of grave economic crisis. If we are to progress as a nation we must break out of this iron cage of political caste. We must either have new parties--which is not necessary,--or a new partisanship and a new kind of party organization...
...firm iron of the fourteenth line. An you please, Mr. Benet, no more of this. "Heavens and Earth!" "And shall I couple hell?" Sing us a thousand ballads! Drink...
...hardly agree with Mr. Kelly that "if the owners cannot operate the plants the workers will." They may succeed in North Carolina--and they may not. Most persons agree that labor and capital must continue to be partners, each dependent on the other. Yet even the failure of the iron workers in their experiment will bring partial success: for both sides in dispute will have learned to know each other. Capital will have learned that workmen are human beings interested in management and profits; labor, that a twenty percent reduction in wages does not mean that the president...