Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Filling out his marriage license when he wed Mary Laughlin of the old Pittsburgh steel family in 1902, crusty, patrician President Robinson listed his occupation as ''gentleman...
...final break with William Green, the historic events of the labor year revolved largely about the powerful, leonine figure of the boss of C. I. O. The rise of the Sit-Down, the storming of the automobile industry, the peaceful capitulation of U. S. Steel Corp., the disastrous strike in "Little Steel" were strictly C. I. O. affairs...
Said to be the largest unincorporated town in the U. S., Weirton, W. Va., population 16,000, lies in a fold of the hills about 40 mi. west of Pittsburgh. Its arterial main street bisects the dingy rambling mills of Weirton Steel Co. On narrower streets that wind up the steep hills, Weirton's workers live in frame houses, built against the hillside. Two miles outside Weirton, in dramatic proximity to the inevitable squalor of U. S. industrial life, stands "The Lodge," the comfortable, greystone mansion of Weirton's founder, Ernest Tener Weir, its most conspicuous feature...
News from New Cumberland Court House concerned National Labor Relations Board's hearings on charges brought against Weirton Steel Co. by C. I. O.'s Steel Workers' Organization Committee. Among the 6,479 cases which N. L. R. B. has handled, this one stood out because Weirton Steel Co. and its board chairman have long been among the stubbornest and most effective opponents of the New Deal's labor policies. In 1933-35, Weirton Steel bluntly snubbed NRA by refusing to hold a labor board election, and was upheld by a Wilmington, Del. Federal district judge...
According to the complaint presented by Lawyer Morton, Herbert Fleishhacker in 1919 agreed to let the Anglo Bank lend M. Barde & Sons, Inc. of Seattle and Portland funds to buy steel from the U. S. Shipping Board, in return for which favor he was personally to get half the profits from the sale of the steel. Brothers J. N. and Leonard B. Barde presently received $325,000 from the Anglo Bank, another $175,000 from the Central National Bank of Oakland. The Bardes were successful in their bid for the steel, formed Barde Steel Products Corp. and before long repaid...