Word: paternalistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past sins is American Landscape. Four years of sulking in his tent have robbed the Rice who wrote The Adding Machine, Street Scene, Counsellor-at-Law of all his old cunning, power, punch. American Landscape tells of the head of an old Connecticut family (Charles Waldron), a benevolent paternalist out to sell his factory because it has been unionized. To make a clean sweep, he decides to sell his farm as well. But when he agrees to sell it to a Nazi Bund for a "recreation ground," not only his family protests, but his long-dead forebears - along with Harriet...
...amiable old paternalist who was immensely pleased when his editorial workers recently informed him that they wanted him and not the Newspaper Guild to be their sole bargaining agent, Publisher Dealey has his plant plastered with pictures of the Alamo's Davy Crockett, with that hero's motto: BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT. THEN GO AHEAD...
...Walter Kohler, the true paternalist in industry, such demands represented the peak of Labor's ingratitude. On wages and hours he might have compromised but he was ready to risk a bitter labor deadlock rather than recognize the A. F. of L. as the sole representative of his workers. The first crisis came when Kohler Co. ran low on coal, after strikers had blocked three coal cars being switched to the plant. Since the plant furnishes the town with water, Kohler's whole water supply was threatened. Father John Maguire, Federal Labor Mediator, with difficulty persuaded the strikers...
Biltmore originally covered 125,000 acres of North Carolina land, has been reduced by turning one section into a forest reservation, another into a village, to 11,500 acres. To house the 2,000 people employed on the estate, Paternalist Vanderbilt built a model village in the English Cheshire style, now a suburb of Asheville. Biltmore's first Chief Forester was Gifford Pinchot, later (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania. Here until his death in 1914 lived George Washington Vanderbilt, studying the dialects of the American Indian in his ornate library, helping his North Carolina tenants with their farming, issuing...