Word: tools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever had greater political power of tongue than Franklin D. Roosevelt. When he has spoken the country has arisen and followed him as a prophet. His unique power to explain simply and convincingly, to gain acceptance for ideas, has been his most powerful political tool. Last week in Washington his political advisers were urging that it was time for him again to use that tool, to bring 122,000,000 people once more enthusiastically to their feet, to cheer them, convince them again of the merit of his aims, and win back the support of those who have begun...
...letters in Wednesday's CRIMSON betray a confused state of mind with regard to German Fascism which should be clarified. The idea is called "foolish" "that Hitler is the hired tool of capitalism." Since the author of the letter himself does not challenge the correctness of the NSL interpretation of Hitlerism as the dictatorship of big business, we can hardly quarrel with him, but in order that "the more skeptical readers of the CRIMSON" be relieved of their doubts, he suggests that the NSL study the German situation on the spot for four years. Inasmuch as we have only...
...idea that Hitler is the hired tool of capitalism, that capitalism is sending Hanfstaongl to his class reunion in order to undermine racial toleration in Americas, is as foolish as shouting one's broken English at intelligent people in an attempt to incite them to make fools of themselves over pacifism. The idea of aligning the CRIMSON with German capitalism is even more stupid...
...only to be renewed again. Nash workers, their pay difficulties straightened out, again raised the issue that they could not go back to work until Seaman Body Corp. (manufacturers of Nash bodies) settled with its workers. In the Detroit area, a strike threatened by the Mechanics Educational Society (tool & die makers) was called. More than 3,000 tool & die men walked out of 100 small job shops which would not grant their demands for a 20% wage increase, 7-hr. day, 35-hr. week. Last autumn the tool & die makers crippled the entire automotive industry with their strike...
Keeping the price down was obviously more to Henry Ford than an economic principle. He had already got a head-start in 1934 production while the tool & die strike bedeviled other motormakers last autumn. He had been making some 5% of his steel, could and probably would make more. Smartly he had stalled off labor troubles by raising wages long before the other companies...