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...Girdler of Republic-and try her prowess as a labor peacemaker. Although a secret ballot of U. S. Steel's employes last week showed, according to Iron Age, that 95% of the company's employes opposed a strike, the bloodiness of all past steel strikes made the threat of such a walk-out still one of the most grievous prospects for the Administration. On "Madam Queen's" shoulders rested the queen's-size task of ending...
...know it." Meanwhile in Washington President Roosevelt was giving up, for the last time, any hope of putting through the comprehensive Labor Disputes Bill by New York's Senator Wagner before the end of the session. Possible passage of that measure had served the President well as a threat to bring balky employes to quick terms. But with Congress soon out of Washington the Administration felt the need of something stronger than a threat to deal with the strikes which were bound to develop during the summer and autumn. Therefore the President had drafted a substitute measure, general enough...
...code specifically forbids destructive price cutting, gives the Code Authority power to fix prices in an emergency or suspend code provisions if they go too high. Actually, with a 4?-per-lb. tariff, the ceiling of copper prices is self-limited at about 12? per Ib. by the threat of foreign competition. Chairman of the Code Authority is an oldtime copperman, President E. Tappan Stannard of Kennecott, who works side by side with a onetime tool manufacturer, Harry O. King, NRA Divisional Administrator. When the copper market developed into a three-price affair-Blue Eagle, non-Blue Eagle, and regular...
...with such violence that he dislocated his right shoulder. Grimacing with pain, he left the Chamber and announced that the entire Opposition would stay out on a protest strike against General Kondylis' ambition to buy 600 million drachmas worth of munitions at a time when Greece faces no threat...
...accusation of treason, a near-drowning, when he was thrown into the River Rhone by Caligula's orders. In the sabbatanic orgies at the palace Claudius played well his appointed role of buffoon, bided his time. But when a conspiracy finally rid Rome of Caligula, only a threat of death from the Palace Guard made Claudius choose the unwanted post of Emperor. He comforted himself by thinking that now he could give public readings from his history, and people would have to come and pay attention...