Word: strongarms
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Legendary are the corporate complications of Associated. Metaphysical, ingenious, a cost-accountant's flea-circus, they are as far above cash-register economics as Einstein is above arithmetic. Legendary also is the personality of Associated's creator, pudgy, laughing, strongarm Tactician Howard C. Hopson. Hopson learned the utility ropes as head of the Capitalization Division of New York State's progressive Public Service Commission, worked 15 hours a day, slept in his office, binged Homerically, ran up astronomical bills telephoning his Janizaries at all hours in all parts of the country, candidly spoke of his "collapsible securities...
...react with one another (i.e., form new compounds) when nudged by simple catalysts (chemical activators) at ordinary temperatures. Up to now chemists have regarded such compounds as indifferent to one another, capable at best of being shotgunned into chemical matrimony by violent stimulants, high temperatures and great pressures. These strongarm methods, even when successful, are wasteful. In the Calingaert process the new molecules slide together without fuss...
...terminals well splashed with ripe tomatoes. Tires were slashed, windows stoned. In Washington, eleven pickets were arrested for forcing a bus to the curb and beating the driver. Five men were arrested in Springfield, Ill. for the same tactics, while four others were picked up for investigation as alleged "strongarm guards" employed by the company...
Witness Bergoff, who has supplied strongarm platoons to many a strike-sieged employer in the past 20-odd years and claims to have made millions doing it (lost later in speculations), described a change of technique in his business since the days when he sent out tough scabs ("finks") to take over strikers' jobs. Now, he said, he sends "missionaries" who try to persuade strikers to go back to work...
...same time walls and fences broke out in a rash of red-lettered posters: OPPOSE AMERICAN INTERVENTION. To the delight of U. S. correspondents, plans for a magnificent "Red Riot" leaked out three days too soon. According to the scheme Dictator Machado's ever useful Porra (strongarm squad) was to equip a mob of hoodlums with sticks, red flags, Communist banners. Just as the Peten was warping in to its berth the "Communists" would assemble at the quayside with hideous cries and frightening gestures. At the proper dramatic instant up would rush a squad of well-groomed police...