Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apprehensions. Last week the state was shaking from the effects of the biggest political land mine which had blown up in years; the jury had indicted State Corporation Commission Chairman Dan Sedillo, one of the biggest shots in New Mexico's Democratic hierarchy. The charge: Sedillo had fed Cricket Coogler drinks and had "possessed her for evil purposes...
...have had around 45 years in the mines. I now have a wife and nine children all under age. I had a mine accident in 1942 . . . got my back and both legs broke. I am unable to do any work . . . Part of my children had to finish school without any shoes and part of the time they didn't have money for lunch. I have three babies that ought to have milk to drink and I can't buy it for them . . . I have no other income only what I get from the welfare fund-and that...
...plight, explained Miss Josephine Roche, onetime coal operator (president of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co.), is just a sample of the cases in the files of the United Mine Workers' multimillion-dollar Welfare and Retirement Fund. With the 20? paid to the union fund for every ton of coal mined, John L. Lewis and his U.M.W. were fighting a kind of poverty and despair unknown to most of the prosperous U.S. So far, said Fund Director Roche, the money has been barely enough to attack the "backlog of human misery [that] has been rolled up through decades...
...Senators received the news with some astonishment-one of the recipients of this rich stipend was their senatorial colleague, New Hampshire Republican Styles Bridges (the other: Ezra Van Horn, representing the mine operators...
Dreamy Lad. British Novelist Nigel Balchin (The Small Back Room; Mine Own Executioner) doesn't know all the answers, and doesn't much care. In Borgia Testament, which pretends to be an "autobiography" written by Cesare shortly before his death, Novelist Balchin is mainly interested in trotting out a brand-new explanation of Cesare's willful ways. In Balchin's view, Cesare was a man of vision, born before his time, who hoped to do what Garibaldi finally accomplished-unite all Italy...