Word: beene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back home some 400,000 miners heard the latest news with evident relief. Another strike would indeed have made Christmas even bleaker than it was apt to be anyhow in the coalfields of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania. The boss had called them out in March and again in...
They had been summoned, all 200 of them, to rubber-stamp John L. Lewis' next move in the coal crisis. For three days a small brigade of U.M.W. local officials, whom imperious John L. calls his policy committee, had plumped themselves down in Manhattan hotel rooms (at the union...
After the headline-making broadcast, Author Robert Sherwood, biographer of Hopkins, promptly labeled the yarn "one of the most amazing cock-and-bull stories I have ever heard." He declared that never, in his reading of thousands of Hopkins papers, had he seen any White House stationery bearing his name...
But the Senator felt pretty good-humored about most of Europe and was willing to say so. "We have been very well received in all but one country," he announced. "I guess I started a furor in that one country. But I have no apologies to make." He added proudly...
"They Do?" As he sat down his aide leaned forward and whispered. The Senator rose again and said, "I meant to say we have been received by the King of Greece, not Sweden. Sweden does not have a King."