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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Almost from the day when he scraped up enough money to buy a tin-plate plant, Ernest Tener Weir has fought the national labor unions. He continued to fight them as his tin-plate plant grew into the big Weirton Steel Co. of Weirton, W.Va. and Steubenville, Ohio. His policy was to pay his workers well; frequently he paid better than the rest of the steel industry. The last strike he had was in 1933. He did his bargaining with company unions...
...acclaim is in dramatic contrast to the record of Capp's earlier years. Li'l Abner's creator, who was born Alfred Gerald Caplin in New Haven, Conn., in 1909 (he shortened his name to Capp in signing the strip, changed it legally in 1949), grew up amid a ferocious struggle with poverty. His father, Otto Caplin-a glib, cheerful, optimistic man who studied law at Yale, had a dilettante's interest in art and nursed continual schemes for making his fortune-managed to eke out only the barest living. It was largely his mother...
...book falls easily into subdivisions. It first shows how the American position grew out of a desire to keep the European nations--particularly England--out of what was considered to be the orbit of the U. S. After a section on the factors which shaped British policy, Professor Merk passes on to the actual negotiations for a boundary settlement...
College and Radcliffe students are just as happy as people who grew up in the comparatively peaceful days of the early twentieth century, Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, writes in the November issue of American Magazine...
...Figs from Thistles ("Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!"), she caught the popular ear, tasted fame. In 1923 she won a Pulitzer Prize and married Eugen Jan Boissevain, a wealthy importer. As her fame and royalties grew, her verse became milder, milkier and more conventionally romantic. In 1927, her The King's Henchman (score by Deems Taylor) was the Met's opera of the year and her published libretto went through four editions in a few weeks. She wrote less & less...