Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Pugh, for many years a steelworker, now chairman of the Trade Union Council, represented the focus of the entire general strike. His chief strike lieutenants, outside his personal Tsardom (steel), were: A. J. Cook (Coal); J. H. Thomas (Railways); Ben Tillet (Docks...
Died. Bobby Leach, 64, English-born "daredevil artist," famed for his successful trip over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel (1911); at Christchurch, New Zealand. Mr. Leach failed in an attempt to swim the rapids of Niagara last fall. His death resulted when he slipped upon a bit of orange peel, broke his leg, and underwent a subsequently fatal amputation...
...Steel production will be reduced in the near future by all signs...
James A. Farrell, president of the U. S. Steel Corp. and chairman of the Council, and Henry M. Robinson, president of the First National Bank of Los Angeles (he created the Dawes Plan of German reconstruction with Chairman Owen D. Young of General Electric and Vice President Charles G. Dawes), were the most notable speakers. They and the others covered the vast subject of exporting...
...United States Steel corporation in danger of being outclassed by other corporations headed by younger men? Isn't it possible that the directing heads of the United States Steel corporation are too old in view of the staid and stolid policies of the management? I mean this of course in the kindest...