Word: cronin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...STARS LOOK DOWN?A. J. Cronin ?Little, Brown ($2.50). HORSE SHOE BOTTOMS?Tom Tippett?Harper...
...coal mining, discussions of blackdamp, underground floods, explosions, entombments, but the picture that results is scarcely calculated to fill the patriots of either country with pride. The bitterness of Tom Tippett's account of Illinois disasters, in Horse Shoe Bottoms, is matched by the bitterness of Dr. Archibald Joseph Cronin's account of similar disasters beneath the seas of England...
...under the sea. His father, who knew that the cutting was dangerous, had led an unsuccessful strike in an effort to compel the adoption of precautionary measures. The most remarkable incident in The Stars Look Down, and a powerful piece of writing in its own right, is Dr. Cronin's account of the flooding of the mine, the death of Father Fenwick and one of his sons who are trapped in a dry shaft between miles of water and rock. In a party that included a 15-year-old boy, a religious fanatic called Jesus Wept, a football player...
...Cronin also traces the consequences of the disaster in the lives of Richard Barras, the mine owner, and his son, pictures them living in a class that is in a state of violent flux with its Wartime fortunes and post-War bankruptcies. Discovering that his father had willfully sacrificed the men, young Barras spent a fortune, eventually lost the mine, trying to make it safe and yet pay high wages...
...California's frantic energies were concentrated on getting Governor Frank Merriam to sign or to veto. A hundred chain store men, 900 independents, with bands, banners, slogans marched on Sacramento, packed the Assembly chamber, booed and shouted when the Governor held public hearings. Progressive Republican Assemblyman Melvyn Cronin demanded acceptance of the bill to stop the centralization of wealth, prevent the destruction of independents, save the State from wage slavery, keep open for posterity the road of opportunity. John Francis Neylan, Hearst lawyer, trumpeted the counterblast: confiscation, a 10% boost in food prices for those least able...