Word: schwab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Millionaires' Day was held in Washington last week, this time by the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee in its bituminous coal investigation.* The millionaires were three: Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corp.; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and Richard B. Mellon, a director of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. They contrasted sharply ?"Charlie" Schwab, with his theatrical rags-to-riches air; the grave, earnest heir of John D. Rockefeller, with his air of Christian concern over a social evil; and Banker Mellon, cautious, acquainted with politicians, suspicious of the Committee's motives, uncommunicative, unsympathetic...
Then Van A. Bittner, representative of the United Mine Workers, had laid upon Mr. Schwab's and Mr. Rockefeller's interests in West Virginia, the same charge that had previously been laid upon Mr. Mellon's company and other Pittsburgh operators, namely, violation of a wage agreement, in spirit if not in letter. The method used, he said, had been to shut down the mines for a time, then reopen them and offer work to non-union men at wages below the agreed union scale. These moves by the Schwab and Rockefeller companies, Bittner declared, were what had driven...
...summary: FRESHMEN COSSACKS Walker, No. 1 No.1, Schwab Gerry, Jenkins, No. 2 No. 2, Vroom Clark, back back, Frederickson...
Score, Harvard Freshmen 15, Cavalry Cossacks 9. Goals--Handicap--Cossacks 5. Goals, Clark 9, Gerry 6, Jenkins, Walker, Schwab 2. Vroom, Frederickson 2. Fouls, Clark 2, Frederickson 2. Time--Six five minute chukkers, Referee Munroe...
...mechanical engineers of middle age, Mr. Schwab's doctrines had a further significance. Those men could recall the bloody Homestead Strike of 1892 when Mr. Schwab, then one of the late Andrew Carnegie's "young men" and a superintendent of the Carnegie Steel Co., was obliged to proceed violently against the steel employes. The company had ordered wages reduced. The workmen refused to work for less money and took possession of the steel 'works. The company hired Pinkerton detectives who, armed with Winchester rifles, came up the Ohio River on two barges. The workmen threw up barricades...