Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President named eight men to sit on the National Bituminous Coal Commission and Bituminous Coal Labor Board, shortly before a coal strike they were powerless to prevent broke (see p. 14). ¶Turning in his commission as Chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, Joseph Patrick Kennedy of Boston prepared to sail with his wife to put one of their sons in the London School of Economics, a daughter in a Paris convent. He said he was "out of politics . . . for the rest of my natural life." On the President's say-so, the other SECommissioners elected as Chairman Kennedy...
Last Monday morning 400,000 soft coal miners in Pennsylvania. West Virginia. Illinois and Ohio failed to go to work and the fourth bituminous strike in the U. S. since the War was on. But nobody got excited...
Wherever it was, man found a way to go down under the water, to upturn the sod of quiet pastoral lands, to split open the face of majestic hills, and dig out coal...
Last week two novels of coal-diggers' tragedies, one laid in England and one in Illinois, gave strong evidence of the fascination that the subterranean life exerts on the imaginations of men who spend their days above ground. Both books are packed with information on the technical details of coal mining, discussions of blackdamp, underground floods, explosions, entombments, but the picture that results is scarcely calculated to fill the patriots of either country with pride. The bitterness of Tom Tippett's account of Illinois disasters, in Horse Shoe Bottoms, is matched by the bitterness of Dr. Archibald Joseph Cronin...
...comparison with The Stars Look Down, Horse Shoe Bottoms is plain and unadorned. John Stafford and his wife Ellen were brought from England to the Bottoms when Old Bill Wantling found coal there and needed skilled English miners to get it out. As long as Old Bill had control, in the last quarter of the 19th Century, the miners endured their hardships stoically, for Old Bill always listened to their complaints even when he could do nothing about them. But when the business expanded and a hard young upstart named Don Simpson, who knew a lot about business but nothing...