Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once again the firm hand of Labor has grasped at the working tranquility of Harvard University, when members of the Iron Workers Union now working at the Elevated Power Plant conducted a strike that threatened to cripple the work not only on the plant itself, but also the progress on Lowell and Dunster Houses...
...will now become a country squire and raise pigs. . . . My resignation as President of the Reichsbank is absolute and final." Thus to flabbergasted Berlin reporters last week spoke Germany's famed "Iron Man," her financial champion at every Reparations conference in recent years, Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht...
...gigantic firm of Siemens & Halske (comparable in Germany to U. S. General Electric) was knocked for a loss of twelve. If the Director of the Reichsbank did not sell short before he handed his resignation to President Paul von Hindenburg, he resisted titanic temptation, proved himself indeed an "Iron...
Slowly the face of the "Iron Man" grew livid, but he controlled himself, answered evenly: "Aside from the damnable insinuation that a man like Mr. Young might use information, if given, for purposes of speculation, the report is absolutely false. I desire to assert emphatically that not even the German Government, but only President von Hindenburg, knew of my intention to resign...
Instead of flying into a temper, or sinking into a dignified sulk the "Iron Man" answered crisply...