Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, conferred with the President regarding a successor to Federal Judge A. B. Anderson of Indiana, who is slated for elevation to the Court of Appeals. Mr. Lewis recommended the appointment of Representative Sanders...
...grandfather, Mathias Stinnes, was a rich man. His father, Gustav Stinnes, was also rich. At 20 years of age Hugo inherited a steamboat business and a mine in Westphalia from his father. From that time on he began his scheme of creating vertical trusts founded upon the broad basis of raw materials. As years passed his millions increased, during the War they grew rapidly, and after the War they simply swelled up to grotesque proportions and in 1924 the man, Hugo Stinnes, had won a prestige by the force of cold cash greater than any other man in history...
Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History: "In a lecture at Columbia University I said: 'Drinking is deadly. Every drinking man I knew in 1876 and every drinking student of mine up to the year 1890 has paid the death penalty. I have every reason to believe that the Cro-Magnon cave man of between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago could enter any branch of the intellectual life of this university on equal, if not superior terms with any of the 30,000 students here...
...will be recalled by old playgoers that just before Mine. Eleanors Duse was playing her first season in Little Lord Fauntleroy, Harry Pratt was playing the part of a girl in the Pudding. Studious application to his art has done a lot for Pratt, and he is now cast for the female lead in "Who's Who". He will probably not open in the Boston performances, where the Watch and Ward Society, though quite, is still looking out for the morals of the young. But he is grand...
...from the Undergraduate Committee of the Union, two from the Faculty, the President or one member of the Student Council, and the undergraduate vice-president of the Union. It is expected that this committee will effect some compromise satisfactory to both factions. John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers of America, may be the compromise speaker. But it is doubtful whether the Undergraduate Committee of the Union would accept him alone as the only liberal speaker to be invited to the Union this year...