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Word: stodgier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor's Gompers remained at heart a piecework cigar maker to the end. As industry grew more specialized, Gompers merely grew older, stodgier. He refused to see that it does not take years of apprenticeship to teach a man to screw two nuts on a Ford chassis as it passes him in straight-line production. So the A. F. of L.'s membership continues to be a diehard association of specialist craftsmen, for which industry has less & less use. On his death bed Gompers petulantly directed his membership to support the Presidential candidacy of the late Robert Marion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Taxation v. Strikes | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

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