Word: mille
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...missionary, a virgin before the Lord, called Naomi. In an Africa which Mr. Bromfield must have studied up on lurid picture postcards, Philip Downes revolts against his calling and celibacy. Attacked by bloodthirsty blackamoors, he narrowly escapes with life and wife back to Ohio, where he enters a steel mill and espouses his fellow-workers' cause. Just before they go on a losing strike, he slips off unexpectedly into a career of painting...
...Premier Raymond Poincaré which was published in L'Action française. The world could not but listen; for this frail old lady is the widow of Alphonse Daudet. Who does not know his works? Who has not read at least one of his Letters from My Mill? It was as though the great, the universally-beloved Alphonse Daudet, had risen from the grave to defend his son in the person of his widow whose very existence had been forgotten. She wrote to Premier Poincaré: "Not long ago I was re-reading your letter which, in terms...
...Rumford Walker - Houghton, Mifflin ($2.50). "You know," she said, "the one thing people can never forgive in one is a betrayal of one's class." Harris Burnham, hearing his aunt thus condemn his excursion into socialistic journalism, replies by going to work with the hunkies in a copper mill. His is a hard-muscled method of thought. He refuses to betray himself by betraying humanity in order to remain loyal to an artificial class distinction. The, to many persons, pleasantly remote life of working people interests him like a bride. Feeling this alien devotion, the girl he loves says...
James John Davis (U. S. Secretary of Labor) addressed graduating high-school students at Follansbee, W. Va., where he once worked in a steel mill. He declared that because of his love for the "the romance of steel he would return to his old job-but for being a member of the Cabinet...
Those are some of the qualities that led Judge Elbert H. Gary to make Mr. Farrell president of U. S. Steel in 1911. He had begun work in a New Haven wire mill; soon he made himself one of the best wire pullers in the country. Shortly after, J. P. Morgan and Judge Gary organized the steel corporation (1901). Mr Farrel became president of U. S. Steel Products Co., the corporation's export division. He was the best salesman of steel goods then known...