Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge has taken from him. To the less partisan observers it seems that Johnson's chances depend on a "break." What prospects are there of such a break? An issue in Congress may provide it?but that is unpredictable. The only other major possibility now apparent is a soft coal strike next spring. The soft coal miners' wage contract will expire. A strike is likely. On Jan. 22 a convention of the United Mine Workers at Indianapolis will formulate their demands. If there should be a prolonged strike, it might seriously damage the Administration. To force a settlement distasteful...
...details were available, nothing definite could be said either for or against the pact. The advantages for France if she has succeeded in connecting the Czecho-Slovak metallurgical industry, in which she owns half the capital, with the French iron and steel industry, plus the Ruhr coal, are that it completes France's control of the industry on the continent and places France in a stronger position than ever...
Since 1920, the Association has spent $1,500,000 among European students. It has served over 22,000,000 meals, and has distributed 436,000 articles of clothing, 70,000 books, and 430 tons of coal...
...Coal Problem?"The cost of coal has become unbearably high. . . . Those responsible for the conditions in this industry should undertake its reform and free it from any charge of profiteering. ... I do not favor Government ownership or operation of coal mines. . . . The supply of coal must be constant. In case of its prospective interruption, the President should have authority to appoint a commission empowered to deal with whatever emergency situation might arise...
...Lullaby and collected 28? by begging on the streets outside the Knickerbocker Theatre, Manhattan. As a result of the publicicity which attended this stunt, I received a letter from the West Side Gospel Mission stating that 28? was sufficeint to buy a loaf of bread and a pail of coal. My press agent was quick to announce that I sent the 28? to the mission, plus a check for $25, 'to show she was as well off as most beggars...