Word: coalyard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beating up C. I. O. coalyard owner-drivers, three A. F. of L. teamsters went to trial in Seattle last week. This routine court item was news in Seattle and all along the Pacific Coast. Reason: They were Dave Beck's teamsters...
Died. Senator James Couzens, 64, of Michigan, reputedly richest man in the Senate, who strongly advocated higher income taxes for his kind; of uremic poisoning; in Detroit. A onetime newsboy and coalyard hand who in 1903 invested $2,500 in Ford Motor Co., he became Ford general manager, sold out his interest to Henry Ford in 1915 for some $30,000,000. In 1919 he ran for Mayor of Detroit, warned voters he was not "a good fellow . . . who will do favors for his friends," was elected. Three years later he was in the U. S. Senate. Last September Republican...
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