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General Clay's special train pulled out of Essen and trundled the Congressmen to Frankfort. There they all shook hands, split into teams and hurried off in all directions. This week the rest of the show-me committee was spread all over western Europe-in Paris, Brussels, Vienna, Rome-asking questions, taking notes...
...though the cast for some vast and somber drama was assembling before curtain time. Scores of miners' wives seated themselves numbly on benches in the mine washroom. Rescue crews from towns all around the coal fields-from Belleville, Herrin, Du Quoin, Eldorado, West Frankfort-stood in their hard-toed shoes studying a map of No. 5. Near them were reporters, photographers, state troopers, Red Cross workers, and the drivers of the hearses parked outside...
...soft-coal miners, out since April 1, were solidly behind him. Nor were they particularly dismayed at being out of work. They had had a wonderful winter and they were well off-temporarily, at least. In West Frankfort, Ill., near the world's largest mine, they stood three deep around the Egypt Café bar; miners' wives paraded into Pollock's Electrical Appliance Co. to order washers and refrigerators. The West Frankfort bank was fairly bursting with miners' deposits. Telephone installations were at an all-time peak and the "42" Cab Co. was doing a record...
...last week, drawling, cigar-sucking Ed Prichard knew his job was done. Now slimmed down to a roseate 210 Ibs. (by dieting, not by wartime Washington) he tossed his law books into a bag, went back to his home in Paris, Ky. He will practice law in Lexington and Frankfort, turn his eager eagle eye on the politics of his home state. At Harvard "Prich" had been particularly famed for one boast: that he would some day be Governor of Kentucky. This he branded last week as a base canard; he just intends to "run for something." With a fair...
TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth saw it at Hoechst, an industrial town near Frankfort. Four men-a Communist, a trade-unionist, two Social Democrats-had scrapped their pre-Hitler political differences and were working as auxiliary police for the U.S. army...