Word: coal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lyndon Johnson, Senate Majority Leader, in a blast in the coal-mining center of Welch (pop. 6,850), called on West Virginia to elect two new Democratic Senators to replace its Republicans. He charged that the G.O.P. is running against Old Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, because they know they "can beat poor old Gene Debs, because he is dead and buried. But," cried Johnson, "they can't beat unemployment, they can't beat sickness and disease, and they can't beat Khrushchev by resurrecting a dead man-and a dead issue-and kicking him around...
...marriage was ill-starred and the ioman Catholic wife, the former Marie Carmichael Stopes, eventually got an annulment. From years of married frustration (the church recognized her as virgo intacta), the 38-year-old doctor of science, authority on paleobotany (fossils) ind coal, drew the inspiration for a tract on what the marriage bed should be. Its title: Married Love...
...Williams ("Willie") Persons, 59, commanding officer at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia; Jo Robert Persons, one of the nation's leading life-insurance salesmen until his death in 1946, and the Rev. Frank Stanford Persons II, 71, an Episcopalian who carried the Gospel to moonshiners in Virginia, coal miners in Pennsylvania, orange pickers in Cuba, is now back in Alabama...
...Lawrence, 69, one of the savviest and deftest political bosses in a state loaded with them. With 55 years in professional politics, and with Pittsburgh's gleaming new skyscrapers and superhighways as personal monuments, Dave Lawrence has a statewide reputation, strong support in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and the coal-mining regions. Roman Catholic Lawrence may have trouble in the rural Bible belt; Pennsylvania has never elected a Catholic Governor. All the while, Republican McGonigle (a Lutheran) is whaling away at the sins of Democratic Governor George Leader (who is running for the Senate), and Pretzel-maker McGonigle's earnest...
...jobless total dropped 595,000 in August to 4,669,000, lowest since January, as employment rose to 65,367,000. The bad news was that the rate of unemployment edged to 7.6% of the labor force (see chart), close to the postwar peak of 7.79% set during the coal strike in October...