Word: coal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bluff, white-haired John Markle, coal man, chewing a fat cigar, sat at a luncheon table in the Waldorf-Astoria last week, heard Charles Michael Schwab say: "John Markle, you stand for my ideal of American manhood. . . . You have always tried to appear as a roughneck sort of fellow but beneath your rugged exterior I know there is a heart of the finest gold...
...Markle, oldtime anthracite coal operator, was for 47 years general superintendent and president of the Jeddo-Highland Coal Co. of Jeddo, Pa. Retired, he has established the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation to promote the general good of mankind. The foundation will aid and maintain medical research centres, hospitals, charitable institutions, libraries; help destitute persons; will eventually, said Mr. Markle, rival the scope of the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations...
Near Wilkes Barre, Pa., one Joseph Nowanick, coal miner, angled for fish in Brohead Creek, fished up a diamond-ring. He learned it had been lost by a Mrs. Joseph Brown of Manhattan and was worth $1,700. Honest, Miner Nowanick sent the ring home. Grateful, Mrs. Brown offered a reward. Proud, Miner Nowanick refused. Insistent, Mrs. Brown invited him to Manhattan to spend Memorial Day. Sociable, Miner Nowanick accepted...
...means of artful dodges. . . . I predict that, even if no unforseen events happen next year, the Chancellor [Mr. Churchill] will find himself having to face the country with a deficit. . . .† Finally, the blame for this deficit will rest upon the Government because of its policy during the coal Ktrike [TIME, May 10 to Nov. 29]." Significance. Behind the Conservative Cabinet supporting Chancellor Churchill is a parliamentary majority so large that the attack of onetime Chancellor Snowden did not even draw a reply last week from the Cabinet Bench. The Government's attitude toward the coal strike, and consequent...
...TIME, May 3, 1926. This was the famed "coal budget," the alleged "profligacy" of which consisted in expending ?20,000,000 ($97,200,000) on a subsidy to the coal industry which delayed but did not prevent .the general strike and the coal strike...