History of industry in Youngstown project / Robert Ferro, Sr. ; interviewed by Janice Cafaro. 1986.

Cafaro, Janice.

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Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company

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In this decision, the Supreme Court found that the president of the United States may not order the seizure of basic steel manufacturing plants during peacetime and without Congressional authorization. On April 8, 1952, President Harry S. Truman, responding to a threatened strike by the United Steelworkers of America (USWA), issued an executive order granting the secretary of commerce requisite power to seize the nation's major steel manufacturing plants. Secretary of Co...

Ferro, Roberto

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Robert Michael Ferro was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on October 21, 1941, raised in Cranford, and received a BA degree in English from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in 1963. He enrolled at the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa in the fall of 1965, and received an MFA in Creative Writing in 1967. During his final semester at Iowa, Ferro met Michael Grumley (1941-1988), also a student at the Writers Workshop, and the two began a two-decade-long personal and professional pa...