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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rawhiding. Was John L. Lewis himself in any way responsible? He had seldom paid more than lip service to mine safety, and had let damning mine inspection reports go unread in his Washington headquarters. Though he was empowered to demand the closure of unsafe mines, he had never mentioned conditions at Centralia. The thought that he was in any way responsible apparently never crossed John Lewis's mind. Whoever else might be guilty, he was triumphantly, righteously innocent...
...miners, and even John L. Lewis, who was once a miner himself, knew that Bayless was right. In coal mining there is no absolute safety. Improvements have been made over the years, but the death rate is still high. Last year 974 miners died in rock falls and other accidents-most of them unnoticed beyond their home-town papers-compared with...
Socialist Patriarch Léon Blum snapped back that the savior of the Republic spoke against the Republic. "I am obliged to acknowledge that an open fight has now begun," he wrote. "Without reservation . . . [the Socialist Party] will be on the side of the Republic." The moderate MRP's leaders were cautious and worried. The Right's approval of De Gaulle was markedly reserved. Communist L'Humanité demanded an Assembly debate to forbid Army officers to listen to De Gaulle. Worried about the increased danger of civil war, Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier paid a hasty visit...
...Princess of Hanover, Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick and Lüneburg at the time of her marriage...
They called him l'uomo che la morte non vuole-the man whom death does not want. Amerigo Dumini, the St. Louis-born Italian gangster-politician, had sent many men to their death, but somehow always managed to dodge it himself. He lost a hand in World War I, and lived. He stopped a bullet with his head in World War II and lived, recovering miraculously after he had been abandoned as dead in a cave near Bengasi. Yet his most famous dealings with death occurred in the infamous days between the two wars, when he organized the murder...