Word: lers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indicted: National Bronze's bespectacled mustached President John L. Schmel-ler; his brother Frank, general manager-another brother, Edward, chief metallurgist; four other top company officials, and the company itself. The charge-conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by selling defective castings to the Packard Motor Car Co. for use in Rolls-Royce airplane motors. The Schmellers and the others were ousted from the company and tried last week in Cleveland's Federal Court. There, more than 100 witnesses minutely detailed the plot against...
...Girdler Way. Few U.S. citizens outside of the steel industry ever heard of Tom Girdler until March 1937, when the battle of "Little Steel" began. When U.S. Steel signed a collective bargaining agreement with C.I.O., then bossed by Samson-haired John L. Lewis, Tom Gird-ler's beady eyes bulged with rage. He writes...
...offensive had not attained the promised scale. Now, or never, was the time for the effort. If Germany won, an Allied second front in Europe would be indefinitely postponed. If she failed -and her time was running out - the first great breach in the Atlantic Wall of Hit ler's Fortress Europe would be accomplished...
...yoke. We have not, nor can we have, such war aims as the imposition of our will and our regime on the Slavic and other enslaved peoples of Europe who are waiting for our help. Our aim is to help these peoples in their struggle for liberation from Hit ler's tyranny...
...From the Graphic, Gauvreau was hired by Hearst's fabulous Albert J. Kobler, publisher of the Mirror then founded to beat Captain Patterson's Daily News. Kob ler was "a well-read, intelligent man" who talked like Sam Goldwyn. ("This tabloid business is not all rag, tag and cocktail.") After making millions for Hearst, he died with less than...