Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Roosevelt and William Green ran an exciting relay race against a strike in the steel industry. The start was in Pittsburgh where the president of the American Federation of Labor went to try to persuade the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers to call off its strike plans. The finish was in Washington where President Roosevelt flashed across the Congressional adjournment deadline a winner with a new law to combat strikes in any industry. By the time Mr. Green reached the starting post Amalgamated was already in convention to vote the strike and nearby steel companies...
...would match him invective for invective. As in the automobile labor fracas, he had two adversaries to beat into agreement: 1) the steelmasters headed by Eugene Grace (Bethlehem), William Archibald Irvin (U. S. Steel) and Leopold E. Block (Inland); and 2) Labormaster Michael Francis Tighe, president of Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, an A. F. of L. affiliate. The issue was simple: should the Amalgamated get control of all steel labor...
Until 1220 when Alchemist Albertus Magnus discovered arsenic, mankind knew only ten elements-carbon, sulphur, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, antimony and mercury. In the next 500 years alchemists discovered only bismuth, zinc and phosphorus. Then scientific chemistry began By 1900, before which time perspicacious Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyeff figured that there must be 92 elements on earth, no more, no less, chemists had isolated 83. Last discovery of a tangible element, which could be handled and weighed, occurred in 1926 when Professor B. Smith Hopkins of the University of Illinois found Element No. 61 among some rare earths...
...culture battle) - and beat him. Origin of that struggle was the German hierarchy's demand that members of the schismatic "Old Catholic" sect be removed as teachers in state schools. Distrusting ecclesiastical interference in state affairs, the "Iron Chancellor" not only refused the demand but approved a series of "May Laws" to crush the Church. Payment of clerical salaries by the state was dis continued, church property confiscated, religious orders expelled from Germany. Many a priest and bishop who defied these laws was fined and jailed. Net effect was to embitter Germany's Catholic population, increase the strength...
...dancers did a classical Chopin Reverie, a weird Chinese folk drama and a Ballet Mecanique for which they wore costumes of wood, Cellophane and tin to represent the dynamos, switches, flywheels and pistons which young Soviet Composer Alexander Mossolov had in mind when he wrote his noisy, hard driving Iron Foundry...