Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, the nation's biggest soft-coal carrier, offered to buy the stock of the Baltimore & Ohio as "the first step toward merger." The railroads have more than 11,000 miles of track and assets of $2.3 billion, would displace the Southern Pacific in the No. 2 spot, and rank only below the Pennsylvania. Another road deeply interested in the C. & O. merger is the New York Central. It has been talking to the two roads about a three-way merger that would make the biggest U.S. railroad, web the Eastern states with a network touching almost...
...triumph that confounded the experts. Kennedy had carried all but seven of West Virginia's 55 counties. Despite the pressure of venerable United Mine Worker John L. Lewis for Humphrey, the miners in the depressed coal fields turned out for Kennedy. Despite the warnings of their militantly Protestant pastors, the hillbillies south of the Kanawha River voted for a Catholic; Kennedy, in fact, brought his campaign to a climax with a statewide Sunday evening television assurance that if any President of the U.S. took "dictation" from anyone, the Pope included, it would be contrary to his oath of office...
...Philip Murray (1886-1952) was a Roman Catholic born to a poor Scotch-Irish coal-mining family in Scotland, helped found the C.I.O. in 1935 and was president from 1940 until his death. His window is dedicated to industrial and social reform-Israelites in bondage; the prophet Amos warning his people; Onesimus, the runaway slave the Apostle Paul sent back to his master as a brother in Christ...
Humphrey, who cut his political teeth on New Deal oratory in the Depression '30s, sparked like a mountain evangelist to the bleak depression in West Virginia's coal counties. He slashed the Republicans for indifference, flicked Kennedy for his wealth, reminded his listeners that he, too, had been a poor boy. "American politics are far too important to belong to the moneyman." he said on Milton's Main Street. "I want to bring back politics to the people, to Main Street." In Hamlin he rose to a high for hokum: "They...
Kennedy had a New Deal heirloom that Humphrey could not match. Campaigning hard for him through desolate coal fields of southern West Virginia was New York's Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., and every time he mentioned "my father" he raised a storm of applause.Roosevelt even addressed his listeners as "my friends," and said of Kennedy: "He hates war." (In a below-the-belt attack on Humphrey's in voluntary 4-F status in World War II, Roosevelt praised Kennedy's war heroism, said that Humphrey "is a good Democrat, but I don't know where...