Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thither from Chicago went Dr. Tenerowicz in 1923, because he heard it was a "promising city" where thousands of Poles "needed guidance." Dr. Ten was a one-time breaker-boy from the coal mines of Punxsutawney, Pa. (pronounced Punk-soo-tawney). He had studied medicine at Loyola University, served in the Army Medical Corps. Eloquent and energetic, combining politics with doctoring like Michigan's late Royal S. Copeland, who became Senator from New York, Dr. Ten was only five years in becoming Hamtramck's mayor...
...removal of a 6?-per-bushel duty on wheat, U. S. traders were inclined to believe that Canadian as well as Argentine dumping programs might negate the importance of the concession. Day after the treaty was signed, Chicago wheat prices actually fell. Lesser disappointments were registered by lumbermen, coal and metal miners, tanners, papermen...
Louis, Evansville and the soft-coal fields around Cairo, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Ry. is more important than its size would indicate, for it is a connecting link in the great Van Sweringen system. To get control of C. & E. I. after ICC had disapproved linking it with the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Vans pulled off a slick deal in which Paine, Webber & Co. acted as dummy purchasers. A subsequent circumventing of legal requirements, whereby the Vans got RFC unwittingly to pay off an inter-company loan, drew an ICC examiner's admission that "we were made monkeys of. . . ." Last week...
Arthur H. James, 55, of Pennsylvania, sawed-off, sorrel-topped corporation lawyer and Superior Court judge, up from a coal mine boss...
...were hanged. Far from sissies, the Molly Maguires were a gang of Irish plug-uglies who for two decades had terrorized miners' families, taken pot shots at bosses, and made things generally hot for law-abiding mine folks. "Mollies" had been as much of a nuisance to the coal fields' feeble labor organizations as to the mine owners. When they were finally dispersed with the aid of Pinkerton detectives and hangman's rope, all the soberer citizens of Pennsylvania's mining towns sighed with relief. But Pennsylvania's miners still sing about them...