Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Caught flatfooted at the end of June by threat of a soft coal strike on July i, the President did not allow himself to be surprised a second time. Six days before the postponed strike was due again, he wrote to miners and operators asking them to postpone the strike a fourth time to Sept. 16. Graciously miners and operators accepted his "command," hoping for passage in the meantime of the Guffey Coal bill...
...demoted from the presidency of the Van Sweringens' Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in 1929 has never been satisfactorily explained. Certainly that able railroad man, son of a onetime president of Illinois Central, had done nothing to impair C. & O.'s profits, which were excellent, or its West Virginia coal traffic, which was expanding. Best guess for his removal seemed to be that Mr. Harahan, who had gone to C. & O. before the Van Sweringens bought control of it in 1922, was not as close to the Bachelor Brothers of railroading as John Joseph Bernet, their crack operating head...
...winter concerts with his four-year-old National Symphony in Washington, he determined to put on a summer season. He persuaded the National Park Service to shoulder one-third of the cost ($35,000). He hurdled union obstacles. From the Navy Department he begged and borrowed a coal barge which was towed up the Potomac, anchored by Arlington Memorial Bridge. On this was built a big grey acoustic shell. One night last week Conductor Kindler and his 80 musicians marched up gangplanks to the barge, played Wagner, Franck, Johann Strauss, Brahms, Tschaikovsky...
...important of all was the public announcement of the President's intention to have his labor bills passed no matter how "reasonable"' might be the doubt of their Constitutionality. There is such doubt about the Labor Disputes Bill. There is a lot more doubt about the Guffey Coal Bill which, in fact, amounts to NRA's Soft Coal Code being re-enacted into law although the Supreme Court ruled that, and all other codes, unconstitutional. Attorney General Cummings refused to furnish the Ways & Means Committee with a brief for its Constitutionality and, according to Washington talk, flatly...
...details the education of an urchin. Phase No. 1 displays her as a tenement scamp named Ginger, haphazardly raised by a bibbing old foster uncle (0. P. Heg-gie). In the role of brat, she stones windows, pastes neighborhood friends with fruit, eludes policemen by sliding gaily down a coal chute, fabricates glibly and frequently...