Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began with a matter of coal. The President wanted a bill passed giving him power to deal with a coal crisis, should one arise. Horrified, coal operators from and about Pittsburgh caused their lobbyists and Congressmen to gyrate. At this juncture, the fine Machiavellian hand of an opportunist plucked the reins of state. It is believed to have been that of able lawyer and farmer's-friend, Congressman Dickinson of Iowa.* Whoever it was, word was passed that the House farm bloc would vote for a coal-crisis bill. Then the farm bloc offered to block the coal-crisis bill...
...glory." Churchill Explodes. Though the British Government could, of course, take no official notice of Chen's deliberate insult, an explosive retort was made ex officio by Chancellor Winston S. Churchill of the British Exchequer, who compared Chen to A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, famed ringleader of the British Coal Strike (TIME, May 10 to Nov. 29). Cried Arch-Tory Churchill: "Last year we had Mr. Cook. This year we have Mr. Chen. One rose among the murky coal pits in Britain, and the other was nurtured in the balmy air of far Cathay. When I say the balmy...
...abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania was sitting quietly on a divan at his Paris home one morning last week. Beside him sat a red-haired Rumanian Jewess, Mme. Magda Lupescu. A prying world knows that they reside together and that she is enceinte (TIME, Dec. 13). A sea coal fire glowed upon the hearth and Carol read aloud, in thoughtful domesticity, from the morning newspaper...
...carillon in the U. S.?John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s gift to the Park Avenue Baptist Church (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925). To Messrs. Rockefeller and Crane, carillons "sing of eternity and fill the earth with gladsome song"; to jaded sleepyheads, they are no better than an early morning coal delivery...
...dinky, little, 512-mile Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad that connects West Virginia coal fields with Lake Erie ports caused a petty flurry on the New York Stock Exchange last week. Someone wanted a few shares. Others thought they knew why. They knew that Leonor Fresnel Loree had mentioned the road as a connecting link of his proposed fifth eastern trunk system. They knew that Chairman Frank E. Taplin of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia also had mentioned a feasible hook-up of his road with the Wheeling & Lake Erie and the Western Maryland to form a Great Lakes-Atlantic Coast chain...