Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsburgh at week's end to map his moves in the other major battle in which he is presently engaged. In Tampa, Fla. next week meets the American Federation of Labor to decide, by ratifying or rejecting the Executive Council's suspension of John Lewis' United Mine Workers and its C. I. 0. allies (TIME, Aug. 17), whether organized Labor shall be fatefully split into two rival factions. Prime movers for peace have been two C. I. O. leaders David Dubinsky of International Ladies' Garment Workers and Max Zaritsky of United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers...
Died. Very Reverend Monsignor John J. Curran, 77, famed mediator of Pennsylvania anthracite strikes, eloquent prohibitionist; after long illness; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Mine mule-driver in his boyhood, Priest Curran enlisted the aid of his friend President Theodore Roosevelt to bring about a victorious conclusion to John Mitchell's historic United Mine Workers strike of 1902. Admirer and aid of John L. Lewis and his fight to unionize the coal industry, Monsignor Curran was stricken after his rectory was fired last Good Friday...
Such you shall have, for I do save none but mine own Elect...
Biggest contributor to the Democratic Campaign was John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers which gave $100,000 to the National Committee and $50,000 to the Roosevelt Nominators. Biggest individual contributor was Walter A. Jones, member of the Democratic Finance Committee, $40,000: next biggest, $25,000 each, were Philadelphia's Curtis Bok. Chicago's Lucius B. Manning. James Roosevelt contributed $4.293 and Franklin Roosevelt's good friend Joseph P. Kennedy lent the Committee...
When Laurence Housman (Victoria Regina) published his first book of poems in 1895, his older brother Alfred wrote him: "I had far far rather have my poems mistaken as yours, than your poems mistaken as mine." In his will the solitary author of A Shropshire Lad gave his brother permission "to publish any poems which appear to him to be completed and to be not inferior to the average of my published poems." Last week Laurence offered a selection of 48 lyrics which he found among his distinguished brother's papers, in a volume that...