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...weasels that were killing his Ossining hens. The American Humane Association gave him a prize for the most humane animal trap and Merkl went into business in his shed making traps by hand, far more slowly than his two sons could sell them. "I have to punch and rivet by hand. If only I had a spot welder. I make about 150 small traps a week. I can get orders for 1,000. Oh, if I had only a spot welder...
Again the hacksaw was used to saw through a large rivet holding the 16-pound hammer in place. Whether it was then carried out of the building or concealed within, remains a mystery...
...carpetbag days. As usual, at the centre of the spectacle, was Huey Pierce Long, waving his arms, shouting, swearing, sweating?and giving orders which few Louisianans dared to defy. The scene was the State Capitol at Baton Rouge and the action concerned Senator Long's thoroughly successful attempt to rivet his political dictatorship upon Louisiana in advance of the September primaries...
Mike Tighe waited until the Steel Code came up for renewal last week to carry his strike shillelagh to Washington. Then, if ever, seemed the strategic time to rivet the closed shop upon the industry. Into no code so far has gone a closed shop provision and President Roosevelt did not propose to begin with Steel. In renewing the code, however, the President made a solemn promise: "I will undertake promptly to provide, as the occasion may demand, for the election by employes in each industrial unit of representatives of their own choosing for the purpose of collective bargaining...
...personal emissary to promise the strikers a square deal under NRA. With mining resumed, coal code negotiations at Washington settled down into a long pull-dick-pull-devil between operators and Union Leader Lewis. General Johnson coaxed, wheedled, stormed without success. Fortnight ago he was ready to rivet a code of his own on the industry. Last week he changed his mind, turned back to hard-boiled diplomacy...