Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief Justice's smile could not be dimmed for long. Year by year, the docket grows longer. But it also grows interesting. This fall, the Court will treat itself to hearings on the Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Tax, the Kansas Industrial Law and the case of Mai Daugherty, who denied the right of a Senate Committee to examine the books of his National Bank...
Rights in the Saar Valley or Basin, a rich coal region, were obtained by France from Germany for 15 years in compensation for the destruction of coal mines in northern France during the War. At the end of the 15 years (1934) a plebiscite* is to be held to decide whether the district is to be: 1) autonomous; 2) annexed by France; 3) reannexed by Germany...
...simultaneously without great discomfort. And the way of the capitalist is not as easy as you think. John Graham, youngest director of the banking house of Graham & Co., was seriously handicapped by having on his hands simultaneously one of the world's greater fortunes, a labor war in a coal district, and a love affair with socialistic Rhoda, who will have none of him unless he first gets rid of his money...
Pressure is brought to bear on all sides, pushing him industriously in carefully differentiated directions. He feels that to shirk the responsibilities of his wealth would be cowardly. He wants to deal justly and humanely with the men in his coal mines, with the public, with Rhoda, with his firm, most of whose members are related to him. Rhoda refuses to believe in his good faith or in the limitations of his power for good...
...times candidate for President, business manager of the one-man Bryan newspaper, the Commoner, booker of the prince of Peace lectures, caller of the taxicabs to the Lincoln home, checker of the sacred suitcase on all trains-how could he emerge himself as a personality, the best gasoline-buying, coal-selling Governor Nebraska ever had? . . . He runs the State of Nebraska as if it were a small-town shop and he were the shopkeeper. And I am bound to say that he has run it well. He believes in William J. as William J. believes in Genesis. . . ." Candidate Wheeler...