Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...include among my suggestions the proposal to combine the last two years of high school with the first two of college and give A.B.S at that point. That proposal is not mine but is put forward by President Hutchins [University of Chicago]. I am strongly opposed to it. I mentioned it in the book only to hold it up to scorn. After severely denouncing the present deplorable conditions in high schools, I said this plan would only add two more years to be conducted under the same conditions...
...Frey and adopted by a convention vote of 25,616 to 1,227, recommended that the A. F. of L. executive council be empowered to expel suspended C. I. O. unions at its own discretion. The rebel unions marked for first expulsion were John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers of America and Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America-C. I. O.'s twin financial pillars. Least likely to be ousted was David Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers, for Mr. Dubinsky has long wanted peace. Moreover, Mr. Dubinsky, who has always played second fiddle...
...highest wages paid to miners in the Westphalia fields are paid by the French-owned de Wendel properties. This famed international munitions trust uses cast-iron props and other gadgets considered "advanced" in Europe throughout its Friedrich Wilhelm Mine. There the average miner's monthly wage is 210 marks ($84.35) and ne rents nis nouse and garden from the de Wendels for 24 marks per month...
Both sides of the issue were admirably stated by Mr. Justice Holmes in connection with the establishment of martial law during the great 1904 strike of the United Mine Workers in Colorado (212 U. S. at 85): "No doubt there are cases where the expert on the sport may be called upon to justify his conduct later in court, notwithstanding the fact that he had gole command at the time and acted to the best of his knowledge...
Captain James Job Trolley is a tall, leathery pioneer eccentric, complete with cape and beaver hat, whose "monstrous antics" and windy wit have made him for half a century the liveliest landmark in Denver (called Goldtown). Nominally he is the mining editor of the Rocky Mountain Herald, at a life salary of $15 a week; in practice his daily pieces automatically go in the managing editor's wastebasket. His real mission in life is to fight the 20th Century. Tourists, those "fleas on the world's back." who always go for him with cameras, he always goes...