Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help settle the Briggs strike, one of the Depression's most ominous threats, the U. S. Department of Labor sent its Field Commissioner Robert M. Pilkington, 58, onetime superintendent of an Indiana iron foundry and of the Labor Department's employment service. He is a quiet, even-tempered, slightly bald man who likes to be with his family. In order to get back to Indiana where they were living he became a labor conciliator in 1926. He has mediated several Indiana cinema theatre strikes, the Mishawaka, Ind. Rubber Goods factory strike...
...Police Chief that "during His Majesty's pleasure" he will be interned in a village near ominous Sarajevo, birth village of the World War. Father Koroshetz will be interned at another village. Belgrade newshawks heard that King Alexander "is now determined to crush Croat and Slovene discontent with iron severity." How did His Majesty, recently reported suffering from a bad case of nerves, suddenly recover and become so cocky? The answer seemed to be "Sinaia...
Easily distinguished from Charles E. Mitchell, iron-haired president of New York's National City Bank is Charles E. Mitchell, U. S. Minister to Liberia. Minister Mitchell is black. For many years he was a Republican National Committeeman from West Virginia and business manager of West Virginia State College for Negroes. In Liberia Charles E. Mitchell is a most important...
Californians trust Professor Lipman ("Lippy" to students). He is one of the most learned men at Berkeley, and eminently practical. About ten years ago he became interested in curing iron deficiency in fruit trees by injecting certain liquids into the trunks. His technic has saved many a tree. Later he showed lumbermen how to poison trees destined for marine construction or telephone poles. The poisons repel molds, fungi, borers and other wood-destroying agents...
Andrew Jackson was President when the Brothers Cooper, Charles and Elias, went into business at Mt. Vernon, Ohio with a pair of horses as capital. They traded the off horse for equipment to build a small cupola iron foundry, kept the near horse to hoist ore to the top of the cupola. The iron was made into heavy castings for carding machinery, sawmills, farm implements. Last week Cooper-Bessemer Corp., direct descendant of the Coopers' cupola foundry, celebrated its centenary. Nearly submerged in the panic of 1837, the Coopers were prospering in the early 1840's, even built...