Word: moribundity
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Words stirred Gene mystically. The "Labor Movement" caught him up. He helped organize the Terre Haute lodge of the new Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen ("Benevolence, Sobriety, Industry"), rose to leadership in this moribund organization, revived it, resigned abruptly because of its opposition to strikes. In 1893 he developed his "one big union" idea in the form of the American Railway Union, led it successfully through the Great Northern strike, saw it disintegrate after the Pullman strike a year later. For contempt of a labor injunction he was jailed for six months, was impregnated with Socialism by a Milwaukee visitor, Victor...
...other sort of British businessman follows the lead of certain "Young Turks" among London stockbrokers who have recently been advising British clients to take their money out of "moribund" British industries and invest it in the U. S. This group highly approves of investment by U. S. citizens in British companies, the more moribund the better...
...obvious reasons for staying be hind in his Embassy. In Paris Prime Minister Tardieu said that there was no possibility of his returning to the conference unless Lord there were "new developments." Lord Tyrrell, British Ambassador, called on Foreign Minister Briand, begged him to come back to a moribund parley. The Frenchman had left London with the announcement that he "might come back if there was anything...
...explanation for the action as outlined by the Macon Telegraph next day: "The two Harrises . . . have made a real contribution to this state, because they have dared to think and say. . . . Their task was not simply to continue a going newspaper?it was to bring an almost moribund newspaper to a healthy state. Insufficient capital, economic conditions and enmity they had aroused in some of their fights have all handicapped them. In all their troubles the Harrises have not complained...
...professional has on at least three occasions found them negligible. The association between the Stadium and the theatre's best in artistic out-of-door production is more real than the present desuetude would testify. The man, or the organization, that whispers a realization of present availabilities into the moribund theatrical initiative of Harvard will serve art, his University and himself...