Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...1825eethed, and betrayed acute concern while the Lords debated the anti-strike bill jammed through the Commons by Premier Baldwin (TIME, July 12) to lengthen coal mine working hours temporarily from seven to eight so that the owners can offer a wage high enough to tempt the miners back to work...
...182Were informed by Viscount Cecil that the Government would not seek immediate ratification of its anti-strike bill, because certain (Yorkshire) mine owners had refused to offer their men what the Cabinet deemed adequate wages on the basis of the eight-hour day contemplated in the bill...
...Were apprised of the Yorkshire mine owners' capitulation to the Government in the matter of wages, and began to debate the bill...
Quoth Clemenceau: "The expense is of no consequence. These Americans have an Ambassador here who is an old friend of mine. Put me through to M. Herrick on the telephone...
...Weber's name suffered scorn. A young French cock intimated that it was not enough for the court of Louis XVIII that Weber had been kapellmeister at every petty court of Germany. Halvéy recalled the time in Prague when Weber, director of the opera, was a mine for a local operatic golddigger. Asked his opinion, Liszt silently laid his hands on the keyboard and, beginning with the unique tremolo in the bass, played his beloved Sonata in A flat. Victor Halvéy, French poet, writes that until then he had never understood Weber's music...