Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...united labor slate would sweep the field, was Richard W. Reading, long-time city clerk. The C. I. O. candidate was an oldtime Democrat named Patrick O'Brien, Michigan's 69-year-old veteran attorney general who made his liberal name as circuit judge during the copper mine strikes in Michigan before the War. A. F. of L. belatedly entered John W. Smith, who was Detroit's mayor in the middle 1920s and has been trying to get back into this office off & on ever since. Throughout the campaign the sole issue...
...institution. Closer to and better liked by the President, Ogden Mills really ran the Treasury for two years before his superior resigned. Since 1933, Ogden Mills has been trying to help put the Republican Party together again, running his private finances which included directorships in Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp., Chase National Bank, Mergenthaler Linotype Co., National Biscuit Co. and Seaboard Oil Co. A liberal in matters of economics, he was too much of an Old Guard Republican in political reputation to carry much weight in 1936. After a summer of cruising on his yacht Avalon and two weeks...
...would be near midnight by the time three tubs were full and ready for the morning after. Included in the preliminaries, was a trip to the woods for sassafras root and slippery elm bark for flavoring. Next morning an outdoor fire was made and the freshly scoured copper kettle swung into place. Cider on to boil, apples ready to add, and the bilin' was under way. Also ready was the long handle stirrer with a row of clean white corn husks tied through the row of holes in the end of the paddle. This was manipulated, all day long...
Born in Bisbee, Ariz., "Lew" Douglas got a decoration when he was in the A.E.F. artillery, came home and became a citrus rancher and copper miner in Arizona. He served in the House of Representatives for six years before his appointment to the Treasury in 1933. While his only previous experience as an educator was as a history instructor at Amherst College, his alma mater, in 1920, those who knew the family history were not as surprised by "Lew" Douglas' appointment to McGill last week as most U. S. and Canadian citizens. His grandfather was Quebec-born James Douglas...
...storm hit the world's metal markets. In London a bad break carried the price of tin to 56? per lb., down 10? from the year's high. Panicky selling spread to other metals, first in London, then the U. S. Two successive cuts in U. S. copper left the price at 12? per lb., compared to the March high of 17?. Zinc fell from 7¼? per lb. to 6½? and lead to 6? per lb., having touched 7½? early this year...