Word: coale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must not be based on petty graft and favoritism in the back wards. If honest municipal administration does as much for the poor in housing and recreation and health and crime prevention, the poor are not tempted to give their vote to the man who brings a sack of coal in winter and a peddling license in summer. A possible alternative way to knock out the machines is to adopt the city-manager system which, well-organized, allows few chances for corruption. Perhaps Curley's revival may be a fortunate event for good government in Boston, for it focuses...
...employes). In Manhattan, General Electric's New Dealing President Gerard Swope agreed to a conference with C.I.O.'s United Electrical & Radio Workers, commencing next week. In Boston, C.I.O. organizers announced formation of a new United Shoe Workers union, with 20,000 charter members. Abandoning his U.M.W. coal conference in Manhattan for a few days, Leader Lewis sped back to Washington to lay plans for major organizing drives in Textiles and Oil. Contemptuously he brushed aside newshawks' questions about the animadversions of William Green. Snapped the Man of the Year-to-date: "I have work...
...every comrade knows, Stakhanov was an obscure coal miner who persuaded three other miners to join with him in working as a gang to use their pneumatic drill more efficiently and thus increase production per man. Stakhanov was taken to Moscow, feted by Stalin, loaded with all sorts of presents, including a phonograph with the record Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, and ever since the whole laboring mass of the Soviet Union has been urged, exhorted, tempted and commanded to emulate Stakhanov. Sluggards who do not want to speed up their work as Stakhanov did, have...
...States Steel Corporation is engaged in interstate commerce. Similarly, we could not presume that dealers in live poultry are engaged in interstate commerce. In fact, we cannot conceive how this could even be proved [Schechter (NRA) case]. If Congress, by statute should presume that the products of the bituminous coal industry move in interstate commerce, we should have no hesitation in setting the act aside [Carter Coal Co. (Guffey) case]. . . . These instances . . . involve rights of property; Snatch is arguing for personal liberty. The two must not be confused. . . ." Here the Justice proceeds to Oscar Snatch's contention that...
...chest. At birth and for three weeks thereafter they are white. Gradually they darken to yellowish grey or reddish grey in the adult. People who live in smoky cities like St. Louis (TIME, Feb. 22) have their lungs marbled with black and blue lines from particles of soot. Coal miners' lungs are black, copper miners' are blue...