Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great hordes of American industrial workers is vast; only in isolated individual instances is it crossed. The social and political outlook of the country's educated classes is monumental evidence of the insularity of the average college graduate in the midst of a nation of factory girls, steel workers, miners and lumberjacks. The humanitarian spirit in America has made great strides in the last half century, but to too small an extent has it been grounded on a just understanding of the actualities of the workers' existence. Even future captains of industry who sift up through the ranks gain...
...your Jan. 11 issue, on p. 27, in a footnote, you refer to Clarence Dillon as the builder of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. This is not correct. A few years ago the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. purchased the assets of the Steel & Tube Co. of America, in which a syndicate managed by Dillon, Read & Co. owned a controlling common stock interest. That is all. The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. was founded in 1901 and owes its present preeminence to its President, James A. Campbell and his associates...
...wrote Recollections of the Last Days of Byron and Shelley, an invaluable document. He visited the U. S., swimming Niagara between the rapids and the falls. He bought English estates (marrying once more) and turned country gentleman, social lion, patriarch of the Romantic period. With a constitution "stronger than steel," he lived until 1881 (reading Blake, studying Darwin), and finally had his ashes laid by Shelley's. "The man who best loved Shelley," would have been his chosen epitaph...
...better than steel." He declared: "If Germany beats America to the production of such a metal, the world will pay the German war debt one hundred times over...
Engaged. Miss Emmeline Grace, daughter of Eugene G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation; to Alton Parker Hall, son of the Rev. Charles Mercer Hall, rector of Trinity Church, Bridgeport, Conn...