Word: centralia
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...shrewd old lady who wears fussy, turn-of-the-century clothes, has given away something like $10 million in her time. She put $2,000,000 into Chicago's progressive Frances W. Parker School, sent $100 to the family of each of the in victims of the 1947 Centralia mine disaster, tossed some $50,000 into Wallace's campaign collection plates last fall, and donated a round $1,000,000 to endow the new, leftist Foundation for World Government...
Eight of them were dead almost as soon as the earth beneath their feet began to lurch. Falling bricks or masonry killed an eleven-year-old schoolboy in Tacoma, an 18-year-old student in Castle Rock, a 70-year-old man in Centralia and a 62-year-old steamfitter in Olympia. Three old men and a woman died of heart attacks. Dozens of others suffered broken bones, bruises or wounds from flying glass...
...history of labor in the Northwest was full of the sound of rifle fire, the crash of explosives, and the surrealistic thud of club on skull. The noisiest battles had been set off by the I.W.W. in its invasions of the woods and sawmills. In the celebrated Centralia massacre of 1919, Wobblies shot down four parading American Legionnaires; three years earlier in an equally bloody battle at Everett, Wash, in 1916, gun-toting deputy sheriffs killed or wounded 36 men with I.W.W. cards...
...Louis Post-Dispatch, for public service in its coverage of the Centralia, Ill. mine disaster...
...folksy (with recollections of Halloween pranks), sometimes eloquent, always forthright. Stevenson laid into his rival, Republican Governor Dwight H. Green, with one haymaker after another. He accused the Green administration of shaking down Illinois businessmen, of being responsible for the deaths of in men in last spring's Centralia mine tragedy, of neglecting the upkeep of once-model state institutions. He cried: "The unconscionable spoils machine which . . . now holds the state in its grip . . . must be uprooted and the earth scorched...