Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This schism in the ranks can ruin the A.F. of L., but not the labor movement. Vertical or industrial organization is most suited to modern conditions, where machinery is eliminating the need for special skill and makes all labor of about the same grade and value. If present developments continue, the C.I.O. may embrace all vertical unions, leaving the crafts to the Federation. While the horizontal unions now have some 2,500,000 members, there are 23,000,000 workers whom the A.F. of L. has failed to attract at all along craft lines, and presumably these men will join...
...insisted that there be three other steelworkers in the play with him. They find the stage dull, dislike the night work. Mr. Geddes would like to keep Haade in the theatre and five cinema companies last week offered him screen tests, which he has not accepted. Unwilling, however, to ruin a perfectly good steelworker. Mr. Geddes is letting his protege choose his own course...
...banks of the United States that only the hypodermic needle of the government-supported F. D. I. C. prevents a recurrence of financial panic. Equally attractive is the "experiment with government ownership of utilities," which may appear as justice to all sorts of political malcontents, but which promises to ruin one of America's most highly capitalized industries, the vast majority of whose securities is held by the small investor. This myopic view of what was once called "liberalism" is shown again in the applause at Roosevelt's social security measures. Small regard is taken of the years the workers...
...friends, the answer to that is the record of what we have done. (Applause.) It was this Administration which saved the system of private profit, the system of free enterprise, after it had been dragged to the brink of ruin by these same leaders who now try to scare you. (Applause...
...jest on the disparity of straw votes (TIME, Aug. 3). Gruff, one-eyed Cartoonist Orr does not hate Franklin Roosevelt either, simply considers him "despicable like a snake." He likes to picture the President as a Red, a would-be Hitler, a gorilla-like monster of Fear, Doubt and Ruin. Other cartoonists consider Carey Orr an exponent of "brute force, which gets reaction not converts." Nevertheless Publisher McCormick continues to play his product day after day on the front page...