Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately after he spectacularly settled the coal strike of 1933, Madam Secretary Perkins met Postmaster General Farley at a Cabinet meeting and said, "I was mistaken about that Mr. McGrady," and he promptly became her aide. In Washington he lives quietly with one of his married daughters. His two sons are dead and his wife, a large Irishwoman, lives mostly in Boston with another married daughter. In private life he is an unusually pious Catholic, carries a rosary, also a crucifix blessed for a Happy Death, and on which, if ill or unable to get to church, he may gain...
...accept a truce and go back to work. In 1934 he spent six months on the Pacific Coast with the shipping strike. Same year he was occupied with the A. & P. strike; in 1935 with the Chevrolet strike (Toledo), the Edison strike (Toledo), the Industrial Rayon strike (Cleveland), soft coal strike negotiations, the longshoremen's strike (New Orleans). In 1936 he has been busy with the rubber strike (Akron), building service strike (Manhattan), anthracite negotiations, gas strike (Toledo), shipping strike (San Francisco). In three years he has spent less than a quarter of his time in his air-cooled...
...Mine mule-driver in his boyhood, Priest Curran enlisted the aid of his friend President Theodore Roosevelt to bring about a victorious conclusion to John Mitchell's historic United Mine Workers strike of 1902. Admirer and aid of John L. Lewis and his fight to unionize the coal industry, Monsignor Curran was stricken after his rectory was fired last Good Friday...
...Brussels palace, King Leopold III of the Belgians entertained at dinner 64 coal miners and their families as a tribute to the men's heroism during a Bouverie mine disaster last month...
...Tony Grzebyk was born 30 years ago at Eleanor in the Pennsylvania coal fields. At 13 he followed his father into the mines. When Big Tony was 17 the Grzebyks moved to Detroit, and the family have been automobile workers ever since. Big Tony has been at Plymouth for six years. His brother Pete works at Briggs Manufacturing, his brother Frank at Thompson Products. His brother Stanley is not old enough to work. All the Grzebyks except Peter, who is married, live with their widowed mother in a six-room frame house at No. 5028 Belmont St. That is about...