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...overalls. When Morgan Run coal was exhausted in 1922, Billy Green was one of the few members of the Morgan Run local who was not thrown out of work. Billy had gone above ground some 20 years before and was rapidly climbing to the top of the Labor ladder with his old Morgan Run local card tucked in a pocket of his business suit. When Samuel Gompers died in 1924, William Green stepped up to the top, became president of the American Federation of Labor. Most of the members of his old local never dug coal again but they kept...
...competitive season draws to a close, standings on the House Tennis Ladder appear to be fairly decisive. Following is the order of the present standings: Donald Barker '38, Dudley H. Bradlee '38, Samuel L. Feeder '37, John C. Wood '39, Robert H. Sibley, Jr. '38, and John F. Dyer...
...alarm from Eliot House, the Cambridge fire Department found smoke billowing out from the basement of J Entry. The reception tendered the firemen by the janitorial staff was inhospitable to the point of leaving the iron gates locked until with the aid of their newest automatic hock and ladder, the red-hatted gentry had surmounted the grill fence...
...Starbuck as a brother TIME reader and fraternity brother in the seagoing profession is just a "wee bit" dramatic in parts of his statement but I feel he speaks the truth when he says, "Many a young officer who is on the first rung of the ladder to command owes his push upward to the books sent aboard...
...March, a lovable, exasperating talented wastrel, depicts only too well the end to which celebrated actors have been known to fall. An habitual drunkard, he descends the ladder of fame as rapidly as Miss Gaynor climbs. Having reformed under his wife's influence, Mr. March has a bad time of it until he swims off into the Pacific, which one soon decides is the best place for him after...