Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strongly as I favor TVA and strongly as I disagree with the philosophy and practice of the National Coal Association, I am bound to admit that the injection of the socialistic TVA into a highly competitive capitalist situation must have some of the effects that the Coal Association deplores. To my mind, of course, the remedy is increasing socialization. The equilibrium which the New Deal seems to seek is impossible...
...afternoon the President was at Coal Creek, Tenn., ready to begin inspection of his multimillion dollar social-planning ''yardstick.'' Over a new concrete highway he rode five miles up the Clinch River valley. Soon he was standing on a bluff above the Norris damsite. More than 300 ft. below, the clang of machinery could be heard as great buckets of concrete slid across a cable line, slopped into the dam's coffers...
...their suppers one evening last week with easy hearts. From now on they were going to be looked after by a woman who has spent all her life making other people happy. To be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, President Roosevelt had appointed Josephine Aspinwall Roche, famed Colorado coal operator. Second woman ever to attain sub-Cabinet rank,* her special province was to be the U. S. Public Health Service, the welfare of Treasury employes...
Born in small Neligh, Neb. to a hardbitten, union-hating coal operator father, Josephine Roche started early to have ideas of her own. At 12 she wanted to go down in a mine, was told it was too dangerous. "If it is dangerous for me," piped Josephine, "why isn't it just as dangerous for the men?" It was to be 29 years before she could do much for coal miners, but she did not forget them. The years between were busy. She took an A.B. at Vassar, an M.A. at Columbia in 1910 with Frances Perkins who became...
From him Josephine Roche inherited a large but by no means controlling block of stock in Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., third biggest coal mining company in Colorado. Crushed and disorganized by long and bloody industrial warfare, Colorado miners were then brooding another strike. The strike broke. Six workers were killed, 35 injured at the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co.'s Columbine mine. Instead of scuttling back to the peaceful East, Josephine Roche bought control of the company, set out to create "a new era in the industrial relations of Colorado." She invited the dreaded United Mine Workers of America...