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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coal-bearing West Virginia was getting its coal on prescription (as other States had to get liquor during Prohibition) because John Llewellyn Lewis and operators in the great Appalachian coal fields had been unable to agree to a new wage contract. There had been no "strike." There was simply an "abstention from work." Day after day in Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore, Messrs. Lewis, Charles O'Neill of the operators and three other negotiators for each side swapped stories, cussed Hitler, disagreed about Roosevelt, issued futile counterblasts to the press. They had been doing approximately this since their last...
Alfred Emanuel Smith last week announced that in each & every one of the men, Republican or Democratic, now suggested for P'residential nomination, "There is nothing ... to get very enthusiastic about." Said he: "The kind of a President that is needed . . . who would go in and clean up this mess, would be about as popular as Gillette at a barbers' convention...
...Deputy Leader Rudolf Hess, who follows his leader even in his moods, is still constantly at his side. But the Führer has become so inaccessible to most of his Cabinet that only Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Dr. Goebbels are now able to ask for and get private interviews. Five-sevenths along his Biblically allotted span of life, this strange man has at least the satisfaction of knowing that he has become the most formidable political tactician of his century. Where that will finally get him, neither he nor anyone else knows...
...over a year, Britain's Labor Party has urged the Government to set up a Ministry of Supply-an agency to conscript business for war just as the Army may conscript men. Last week such a Ministry was finally created. In wartime it will see that Government orders get precedence, that businesses get fair but limited profits. All England wondered whether Neville Chamberlain would give the Ministry to an aggressive man of action-Winston Churchill, for example. When the Prime Minister rose in the House of Commons and announced that the job would go to the 51-year...
Angry and humiliated, Marshal Petain suddenly withdrew to Paris, threatened to resign. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet finally persuaded him to return to Burgos, instructed him to get tough and beat down El Caudillo's demands...