Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second time Franklin Roosevelt came forward to strike while the political iron was hot, before the heat of a new nomination had cooled. At Chicago four years ago, in a speech hastily written aboard an airplane, he began by saying...
Thus last week did the mighty American Iron & Steel Institute, speaking for nine out of ten U. S. Steelmasters, snatch up Labor's greasy gauntlet, thrown down as the third and fiercest attempt to unionize the historically non-union steel industry began...
...unions on the highly individualistic steel industry. In 1919 a Chicago railway organizer named William Zebulon Foster tried his hand at organizing Steel. This attempt degenerated because American Federation of Labor unions were more anxious to protect their individual interests than to bring steelworkers into the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. As in 1919, the great 1936 fight to unionize 500,000 steelworkers will not be directed by a member of the steel craft but by a heterogeneous group, mostly outsiders...
...exclaimed what a good thing it had been last week to adjourn the Montreux Conference. Correspondents predicted that on meeting again it will probably end, after a free-for-all, in a stalemate, with Dictator Kamâl Atatürk in any case maintaining Turkey's iron grip on the straits, getting credit for having been most polite...
Director Vidal ". . . is an amiable gentleman. He has a good background. Our fear is that he is too amiable, that he is lacking in iron positiveness and the determination to keep the employes under his direction functioning according to schedule...