Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of Labor Perkins, Secretary of the Interior Ickes and leaders of the United Mine Workers conferred with President Roosevelt on the state of the coal industry, which Chief Justice Hughes has characterized as "deplorable" (TIME, March 27). Both Secretaries hurried directly to the White House from a conference on another of the nation's fuels: the Governors' oil conference. Convened to settle the question of proration (now on the verge of complete breakdown), the conference at once split into the usual two factions: big producers for proration, independents against...
...Either Germany is given justice and freedom or Europe will risk destruction!" threatened Prime Minister MacDonald at his friend Premier Daladier. He explained that he quoted this threat from another "friend of mine whom I hold in the highest esteem"-apparently trie German delegate, Rudolf Nafolny...
...stock. In 1911 the Night & Day became the Harriman National with Joe Harriman still as president. No scandal adhered to Joe Harriman's banking career unless it was that in 1923 the Harriman National, to Wall Street's horror, lent $100,000 to the United Mine Workers. The American Federationist (labor paper) stated apropos Joe Harriman: ''There are constructive minds and honorable characters in all walks of life...
...superbly entertaining gem of burlesque. The play contains all the legendary characters of the old-time thriller, from the farmer's daughter to the Bowery tough, and all the legendary lines from the villain's "Curses! Foiled again!" to the heroine's "Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine." Francis G. Cleveland, Wesley Boynton, Edward Massey, and Sally Fitzpatrick, perfectly attuned to their parts, carry the play to the topmost heights of burlesque. If affords an evening of real fun. Thus far the program at the Peabody Play house has been most successful...
Born on a Nebraska farm, George Dern went to the University of Nebraska, played on its championship football team, once had his pants torn completely off in a tackle. Migrating to Utah, he got a job as bookkeeper with a gold mine, learned engineering, helped to invent the Holt-Dern ore roaster. A moneymaker, he bought into banks, power companies, canneries, is today one of Utah's wealthier citizens. As a progressive Democrat, he was elected Governor in 1924, re-elected in 1928. A Congregationalist, he gets on well with the Mormons. His favorite parlor game is "Murder." Once...