Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...draped his coffin with the white lambskin apron of a Master Mason. As the frozen lumps of earth clumped down on his coffin they seemed to boom up a phrase he once cried: "I have almost had my very soul burned out in the trials of life." William Green, mine worker, Odd Fellow, Elk, Baptist, was at once chosen his successor as president...
...momentous, assembled at Romsey, in Hampshire, Eng., under the chairmanship of onetime (1921-22) Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Robert Home. Present to discuss Anglo-German industrial problems in secretive round table fashion were some of the foremost financiers of Britain and Germany: President Evan Williams of the British Mine Owners Association; former Chancellor Cuno, Chairman of the Hamburg-American Line; Sir Hugo Hirst, Chairman of the British General Electric Co.; Dr. Sorge, a director of Krupp...
...powers of mediation in the strike. He indicated that if the miners would return to work on a regional agreement basis the Government would undertake to set up a national wage arbitration board. Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill appeared still piqued at the mine owners' refusal to accept the plan for settling the coal strike "on principles nationally laid down," which he evolved while Premier Baldwin was on his vacation (TIME, Sept. 20). Said the Chancellor testily, almost petulantly last week: "In my opinion the prolongation of the strike is due entirely to the obstinacy of the mine...
...Renee, seeing in this the ruin of her love, jumps to death from the bridge- which is regretted, because Tom was only going back to get a divorce, and everyone is sorry to see Renee fade out of the picture anyhow. Like Subway Sadie, Tin Gods overlooks a gold mine to find only enough grist to keep the box office grinding...
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