Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such a break? An issue in Congress may provide it?but that is unpredictable. The only other major possibility now apparent is a soft coal strike next spring. The soft coal miners' wage contract will expire. A strike is likely. On Jan. 22 a convention of the United Mine Workers at Indianapolis will formulate their demands. If there should be a prolonged strike, it might seriously damage the Administration. To force a settlement distasteful to the public or to the 160,000 miners in the pivotal states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois would be even more unfortunate. In such...
...Mine. Behind this ghastly title, there lurks a film of gold. It is another of Booth Tarkington's yarns of youth. He has somehow managed to preserve his peculiar humorous charm in strips of celluloid. Ben Alexander makes the various boyhood adventures pathetic, amusing, sincere...
...abroad. At the pier reporters besieged me. They told me that George F. Baker, recently arrived from Europe, had been publicly optimistic about world condition, urged me for my views. Said I: 'No one can question his opinion, and since you have his you don't need mine...
...through runs a vein of anger and bitterness. The title itself is biter, and the dedication to "Certain poets, friends of mine (all but one)" is still consistent. While each poem seems conceived in wrath and dedicated to irony, he does not dodge invective; see his remarks to "The Public" beginning...
This week's program of lectures is as follows: Today, "Damascus"; tomorrow, "Not Having Mine Own Righteousness"; Wednesday, "The Life of Obedience"; Thursday, "The Human Paul", and Friday, "The Love of Christ...