Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second to receive his gift was Michael Gallagher, cemetery caretaker, who two years ago gave important testimony in a dynamiting case which grew out of the fight between the United Anthracite Workers and the United Mine Workers of America. After decorating graves for Easter, Caretaker Gallagher went home to lunch. His box blew him to bits...
...hours later State police calmed the terrified city by cutting off parcel-post service, arrested one unidentified suspect for what appeared to be a disastrous follow-up to the bitter fight three years ago between the defunct anthracite union and its more powerful conqueror, United Mine Workers of America...
...Message to García (Twentieth Century-Fox). Impressed with the resources of U. S. history as a mine of cinema material, Producer Darryl Zanuck has so far worked it for such nuggets as The Bowery, The Mighty Barmim and The Prisoner of Shark Island. A Message to García is more ore from the same vein, showing that 1898 courier, Lieutenant Andrew Summers Rowan, performing the errand which the late Elbert Hubbard publicized in his famed essay. Dispatched by President McKinley to give Cuban General Calixto García a verbal message to the effect that...
Frank Richards first heard about army life at the bottom of a Welsh coal mine, when his "buttie," an ex-soldier, held forth on the milk & honey that was India. It sounded livelier than a collier's future, so off went young Richards to enlist in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was younger than the age he gave the recruiting sergeant, but well set-up and handy with his dukes. He soon got the hang of barrack life, and was enjoying his beer and his "bit of skirt" with the best. He took his part in many...
...fate. Everything went wrong. Though he leaned over backward to keep from embroiling himself with the Spaniards, his men were attacked by them, his son killed. In revenge, while Ralegh lay sick aboard his ship, his men stormed and sacked a Spanish town. Yet they found no gold mine...