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Coal Board Chairman Ian MacGregor appeared determined to reach a settlement with the miners' union. Yet there was little progress when Scargill met with the Coal Board on Thursday. The union chief continued to insist that the pit closures are not negotiable; the Coal Board said only that it would reframe its plans to streamline the industry...
LaMarr Hoyt, the junior circuit's winningest hurler in the regular season, took credit for the win, while Scott MacGregor took the loss for the birds...
...Kennedy's first acts in the White House was to order 200 books on the presidency put on his shelves for easy access. "Roosevelt got most of his ideas from talking to people," Kennedy told Historian James MacGregor Burns. "I get most of mine from reading...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. "As late as 1941, there were still 6 million unemployed, and it was really not until the war that the army of the jobless finally disappeared." "Some of the New Deal legislation was very hastily contrived," says Williams College's James MacGregor Burns, author of a two-volume Roosevelt biography. Duke's James David Barber, author of The Presidential Character, notes that Roosevelt "was not too open about his real intentions, particularly in the court-packing episode...
...MacGregor venturing into the quagmire of Britain's aged, failing, government-controlled heavy manufacturing industries? Despite his new nationality, he has maintained close ties to his homeland as the owner of a Scottish country home, where he frequently vacations. He also says that he has an "emotional attachment" to the steel industry, where he received early training. And as one associate observed, "If he does well, he could get the reward of rewards and be knighted." As an American citizen, he can receive only an honorary dubbing. And before any future laurels, MacGregor will have some difficult work...