Word: krug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoke for more than five hours. He wanted Krug fired. "Our people," he said, "are tired of working in Krug's slaughterhouses." Krug was guilty of "criminal negligence." He spoke with rumbling irony of Krug, "the Hercules with the size twelve shoe and the size five...
...roared it down the halls of Congress, he spat it in headlines: "the archcriminal" was the Secretary of the Interior, hulking, 237-lb. Julius ("Cap") Krug...
...grind up human flesh and bone in the industrial machine . . . then before God I assert that those who consume coal owe them and their families protection. ... I care not who in heaven or hell oppose it. . . ." Roaring, whispering or hammering the table, he always swiveled back to his target-Krug...
...Krug remained silent; he suffered Lewis's rawhiding without complaint. Then he ordered 518 Government-held mines closed for safety reasons. Lewis bawled with triumph: "This is Krug's deathbed confession. Oh, God, what a monstrous, grotesque mistake that he is in the position which he occupies...
...tried to bring him to task for the fact that No. 5 had been allowed to run. In Washington, John L. Lewis seized thunderously on the fact that the Government was still, technically, the operator of mines. He cried that his enemy, Secretary of the Interior J. A. ("Cap") Krug, was a murderer, and called 400,000 U.S. soft-coal miners out for a week's "memorial" holiday...