Word: laughlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Could the Senator from Pennsylvania ask the witness a question? It was "common talk" in Pittsburgh clubs, said the Senator, that Mr. Girdler had been asked to resign from the presidency of Jones & Laughlin Steel. "Because you gave confidential information of your company to the company you are now with...
...while appear. Liable to crankiness, preciosity and short wind, a few nevertheless make themselves useful. Last week an interesting candidate for usefulness published its fifth book in a series devoted to "work of individualists." The press: New Directions, of Norfolk, Conn. The editor: 23-year-old James Laughlin IV of the Pittsburgh steel family...
...contrast with similar presses of the past, such as the Black Sun Press conducted in Paris by the late Henry Grew ("Harry") Crosby, New Directions professes a social purpose. Editor Laughlin believes with I. A. Richards and most other competent critics that language, like a swimming pool, needs to be constantly renewed and purified for the pleasure and health of those who use it. If stagnant associations and clichés can be broken up in people's minds they will be more imaginative and receptive to ideas of social change. Says Editor Laughlin: "It is the word worker...
Equally rough were the words of Philip Murray, chairman of S.W.O.C., addressing a strike meeting in Warren: "I'm here to tell Tom tonight that he's not going to get much more ore. Girdler is not a steel man. He was chief of the Jones & Laughlin police force before he was dragged by the bootstraps to be president of the Republic. He's a company cop, nothing more and nothing less, and there's no company policeman big enough to whip...
...Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation is gratified that such an important issue has been so amicably settled by peaceful and democratic methods, under the provisions of the Wagner...