Word: coal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four wheels on it. In 1903 he began to manufacture it; he did not have any cash, so he cajoled some skeptical Detroiters into putting up $28,000 (the only moneys ever invested in the Ford Motor Co.). James Couzens, a Canadian by birth, who was working in a coal yard, scraped up $1,000, added his note for $1,500, bought 25 shares. Two automotive young Dodge brothers (John F. and Horace E.) invested $5,000 apiece. John Gray put up $10,000 but "didn't think the stock would amount to anything and wouldn't advise...
...suit is the climax of a long-standing antipathy between the two wealthiest men in U. S. political life. One of course, is Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, aluminum potentate and banker. The other is that onetime coal-yard-worker, James Couzens, who is now Senator from Michigan. They have been at swords' points ever since 1924 when Senator Couzens expressed hearty disapproval of Secretary Mellon's tax reduction program. A year later, Senator Couzens began poking into the affairs of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, made public a report, charged the Treasury Department with laxity...
...elected Governor. His administration has had its successes: he gave the state a budget system, cut expenditures, reduced the number of departments and bureaus from more than 100 to 18. To the public he is known chiefly as an ardent Prohibitionist and one of the pacifiers of the anthracite coal strike of 1923. Last spring he aspired to be a U. S. Senator, ran a poor third to Messrs. Vare and Pepper in the primaries. Now Mr. Pinchot is without a job; perhaps he will retire to the philosophic pleasures of old age; more likely he will prepare...
Questioned further, Mr. Cook declared that he brought back from Russia "some wonderful presents:" 1) a pledge from Russian labor unions to levy upon their 9,000,000 members for a gigantic fund to relieve the distress caused among British miners by the collapse of their coal strike; 2) three bronze statues, totaling half a ton in weight, and displaying workers in attitudes of extreme revolutionary truculence; 3) an entire series of medals and commemorative placques for British mine leaders who took an outstanding part in the coal strike...
...Teddy, coal-black boiler room cat at the Metropolitan Opera, last week momentarily disrupted a performance of Turandot. As the curtain rose for the third act, Signor Lauri-Volpi, my stage lover, was disclosed supposedly asleep on the steps of my palace. Teddy advanced toward him across the stage. Box-holders jerked their opera glasses into position. Others opened wide their eyes. There was tittering, laughter and one great solemn guffaw. Teddy prowled on. Lauri-Volpi rose to sing. The audience roared. I, offstage, about to go on, had hard work to keep the severe demeanor of the cold Chinese...