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...outsmarted by Mr Lewis the big independent steelmakers were fired with a wrath born of isolation. Big Steel and the little fellows had later yielded recognition to the C.I. O. For the first time since the schism was opened ast spring when U.S. Steel's President William Adolf Irvin telephoned his competitors the incredible news, the two factions sat down in the same room...
Outwardly all was harmony. At no time was the steel strike officially mentioned But the choice of a new leader of the Institute soon narrowed down to Big Steel's Irvin as a representative of the new order and those two hard-bitten foes of organized labor, Republic Steel's Tom Mercer Girdler and National Steel's Ernest Tener Weir. For three hours the Institute s directors battled in a secret session frequently punctuated by heat-treated speeches from Mr. Grace. On emerging. the directors blandly announced the unanimous election of Steelman Girdler, whose Chicago plant...
...week the independents, who "would rather be damned than give in to the Left," were receiving reports from their spies that Steelman Fairless and Labor-man Murray were about to sit down to bargain. The independents were incredulous. Just before the bargaining began, U. S. Steel's President Irvin called up all the independents in person to break the news officially. In terrific agitation the independents started to criss-cross the country with long-distance calls and within less than two hours after the end of the first bargaining conference no less than five independents, led by Ernest Tener...
...Welch Peel '39, Hubert H. Nexon '37, and Vincent J. Rossi '37 will take the negative view of the subject: "Resolved, That this country should adopt a policy of economic internationalism", while C. E. Irvin, Elbert Cisson, and Herbert Weinberg will speak on the affirmative for Oberlin...
...Lawyer Delson searched the New York City records farther back to September 1906 he would have found that Mable McCoy Irvin and Dr. E. E. Moore made an attempt to prove that New York State had a law that would admit of a trial marriage. The ceremony only required two witnesses and notary. We announced ourselves husband and wife. Notary affixed his seal and turned papers over to us. We consulted with friends and the recorder in the city of New York and they all said if this paper was filed at end of six months the marriage was legal...