Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handed, both-handed tennis topnotcher, wandered around Broadway until sheer ennui forced him to do a little volleying on an indoor court. Blond Sidney Wood, Wimbledon winner in 1931 who has been trying for a comeback this summer after two years of minding his nuggets in a California gold mine, visited his relatives in Manhattan. California's Alice Marble, U. S. women's champion two years ago, was a house guest of the Socialite Gilbert Kahns at Oyster Bay, Long Island. Little Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, twinkle-toed Bostonian, sat around at the Forest Hills Inn drinking tea. California...
...purges, I've been thoroughly purged. In Congress in 1924 I was taken off all my committees, but I didn't whine about it. I told Nick Longworth that if he wouldn't let me attend his caucuses I wouldn't let him attend mine, and I'd hold mine in a telephone booth. " His standard crack whenever Presidential 1940 was mentioned: "I couldn't even rate a gallery seat in either party convention...
...actual war broke out. But French Ambassador André François-Poncet got something interesting from the Dictator when Herr Hitler responded to some remarks from the Ambassador by observing: "I trust that no mother will ever have cause to weep in consequence of any action of mine." Henchmen of Hitler whispered that earlier that day he had sent Henlein back to Prague with the smooth advice, "Ask for more-and you will...
...founded last December as the official organ of the C. I. O. Price: 3? per copy, $1 per year, reductions for block subscriptions and bundle orders. Last week the circulation of the C. I. 0. News skyrocketed from 125,000 to 700,000 when John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers of America entered subscriptions for all its members. Editorialized the C. I. 0. News: "Powerful chains of daily papers show that the business world has learned the lesson of combination. But labor has here tofore failed to apply its slogan, 'in union there is strength...
...Charlotte), was respected for improving turnpike roads, founding schools and chapels, was hated for espousing the cause of the upstart American colonies. Bit by bit the Wedgwoods disposed of their land, until a bare five-acre plot on which the plant still stands was jostled by other potteries, mines, factories. Neighbors' smoke marred the fine finish of glazed Wedgwood ware; sapping shafts of a nearby coal mine made Wedgwood ovens sink two feet; Hanley's congestion, for which Critic Lewis Mumford damned the place as a "non-city" (TIME, April 18), blocked Wedgwood expansion. So the firm bought...