Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...districts are ruled by Lewis appointees). It was just a waste of time, said the Great Man, to talk about such things; he could be relied upon to choose competent officials and, if any of them "failed to do the right thing," he would send them back to digging coal...
From there on, the delegates tried to outdo each other in expressions of fealty. They decided that his birthday, Feb. 12, should be a holiday† in the soft-coal fields. They learned that John L. had not paid his $30,000 contempt fines out of his own pocket but out of the union's till, and voted retroactive approval of that. John had merely to suggest that the U.M.W.'s $13 million bankroll ought to be bolstered so that he could have more "available funds in a crisis." With audible grumbles, the delegates voted to boost their...
...week Arthur the Alley Cat enjoyed the comfort of his surroundings in the coal bin of Agassiz. Yesterday he decided to show his gratitude. Arthur brought a live mouse into the girls' smoking room at Agassiz...
...Philadelphia and in a clinic in the heart of hard coal country, Dr. Motley tried this apparatus on 500 silicotic miners. All of them reported various degrees of relief. But a partial cure is not enough. Soon the United Mine Workers will send research teams down into the mines to find out if silicosis can also be prevented...
...visiting correspondent was the heftiest and one of the brassiest women of the Washington press corps, and she covered Germany like a rough-riding Valkyrie. She descended on Berlin via the airlift, sitting on bags of coal. She slept in Hitler's airraid bunker, interviewed General Clay, went shopping with a German hausfrau on the Kurfurstendamm. In Munich's America House, where she made a speech, Correspondent Esther Van Wagoner Tufty caused the biggest stir of all. "They thought I was Emmy Goring!" said she. "I must say I resented that. Hell, she's at least...