Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representatives and more than one-third of the Senators are face to face with a Sphinxlike ballot box. There is a public buildings bill, a bill for increasing the pay of Federal judges, a bill for disposing of Muscle Shoals, bills for future handling of railroad and coal strikes, the French debt settlement, and above all farm relief?all clamoring for consideration. A first-rate legislative jam seems in the making, with the probability that many of these measures will not pass. And although Congressmen are eager to go home, they do not want to return to dissatisfied electorates. Their...
...whose father gave him his first job, Joel whose uncle (Barney Barnato) took him to South Africa, Sir Lionel Phillips who was condemned to death with him, the Guggenheims who employed him at a fabulous salary, Taft who offered him an embassy, Coolidge who today consults him on the coal situation...
...engineering problems. President Taft (his very good friend) offered him the post of Minister to China (which he refused). He became interested in irrigation, electric power, electric railway developments on a large scale and on several continents. His most recent post of note was the chairmanship of the U.S. Coal Commission. He is still going on, although no longer fighting revolutions...
...interim, rising prices, incidental disputes, and jangled nerves increase the difficulties of a solution. The strike is essentially a human protest against the ruthlessness of economic law. The English coal industry is suffering from that anathema of Thomas Carlyle, "overproduction". More capital is invested, more men are employed in coal mining than can possibly be supported on its profits. And in this age of specialization, the transfer of either capital or labor to another occupation requires time and initiative precluding the possibility of a quick readjustment Quite the brightest spot in the whole situation is the unobtrusive announcement that...
There is a new saga to be sung in Nova Scotia-about Johnny Miles, the Welsh pugilist's son, who worked in the coal drifts at Cape Breton until his father saw he was a footracer. It will tell how Johnny was found a job aboveground, driving a grocer's wagon; was trained, conditioned, counseled and sent down to tell the officials of the great Boston Marathon that he, a lad of 18, had come to win their race, though never in his life had he run more than 15 miles on end. It will sing of Clarence...