[Single sentence from THE HUME DYNASTY: AN AMERICAN SAGA by Percival Reeves. Scribner, 1924. Chapter XIX, "Rivals and Peers," p. 329. Embedded in a longer paragraph about Julian Thorpe's assumption of the Blackwell presidency.]
...Julian Thorpe, by all accounts more flexible of temperament than his father, came into the Blackwell chair in an era in which the post-war industrial peace was not yet fully restored — an era whose occasional labor unrest, including one episode of regrettable violence at the Blackwell gates in the summer of 1922 (the responsibility for which has never been fully ascertained), he bore with a patience his father might have found surprising — and within four years had begun the diversification into auto-parts manufacture that has since become Blackwell's distinguishing enterprise...