Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heartily in favor of it." But those of them who had seen the design of his new club shuddered in their seats. Old Weapons, The arms with which, to date, Senator Wagner has fought his battle are comparatively simple. His National Labor Board, founded last August during the soft coal strike, was supplemented by miniature offspring called Regional Labor Boards of which 18, with some 250 voluntary members, now exist. Their job is to sift labor complaints on the spot, turn back trifling ones to NRA Compliance officers, hold hearings on others, try by conciliation to prevent them from growing...
...Eldora, Iowa, Hank Schafer, 83, slipped on the ice, fractured his hip. Long ago Hank Schafer was buried alive in a coal mine. Later he lost an arm and eye when he was blown into the air by a cannon. After that he was buried alive under two tons of clay. Next he fell 30 ft. off a cliff. Still later he was thrown by a horse and dragged through a barbed-wire fence. Then he fell from a speeding bobsled, fracturing his skull. At 80, he recovered from double pneumonia. At 81, he was downed by a paralytic stroke...
...steady disappearance of coats and hats from the coal-rooms in the various Houses and at the Union, and the disappearance of belonging even from the students' rooms make it necessary that more efficient methods be used to prevent Harvard's annual epidemic of petty larceny...
...admission, tacit or articulate, that he cannot accomplish what he set out to do, not even within a reasonable distance of success. I have no doubt that this bit of brazenness on Hitler's part will result in his having his paddles slapped by the automobile, steel, and coal industries, for such threats to one of them are threats to all, and not to be tolerated. It should not be long before Hitler realizes, as Mussolini before him, that it is less expensive to play in with the frock-coated captains of business and finance than carelessly to aggravate them...
...automobile he carefully locked its doors. "Don't bother to lock your car, Bishop," said the senior warden. "We're all honest around here." Sharply retorted Bishop Hobson: "Oh, no, you're not! You've been using your missionary money to pay your coal bill...