Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eggs (from China), hemp cordage (from Italy) and bicycle bells (from Germany). He lowered the duty on bentwood furniture (from Czechoslovakia), olive oil in pack- ages (from Italy) religious and commercial organs (from Canada). He agreed with the Commission that no flexing was needed for the rates on pig iron, cheese, hides and skins, olive oil in bulk or cast bells, chimes and carillons...
...Pennsylvania the situation was even more acute. On June 8, deputies, State police and Coal & Iron police tried to disperse 1,000 picketers at the Westland mine of Pittsburgh Coal Co. with tear gas. At the Ellsworth mine of Bethlehem Steel Corp., miners stormed a barricade with sticks and stones, were repelled by tear gas and machinegun fire...
...from breaking up picket lines. ... I am making an honest effort to end this trouble. . . . Operators cannot sell coal at prices people will not pay. But I am doing the best I can to get work back." He also made it known that he would disband the notorious Coal & Iron police on July 1, as promised. Most of these men, however, will be re-employed by the companies as watchmen...
...convoying deputies. The shooting started. One Mike Filopovich, 40, father of five, ran to the door of his store, which also houses the National relief station. One slug clipped him in the head, another in the chest. He died instantly. Four strikers were wounded. Six constables and two Coal & Iron policemen were arrested for the killing. The Governor ordered an investigation...
Samuel Mather did not go to Harvard after graduating from St. Mark's School 62 years ago, because he was seriously injured that summer vacation working for his father's Cleveland Iron Mining Co. as timekeeper and payroll clerk. He convalesced in Europe for two years and returned directly to the family business. He amplified it until he became rated Ohio's richest citizen. Unlike John Davison Rockefeller, he and his wealth did not move away from Cleveland...