Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the moment came. Surrounded by 30 yes-men of the United Mine Workers' executive council, Lewis grabbed a scraggly scrap of paper and a blue pencil. He wrote...
There were contributing reasons. The United Mine Workers' hodge-podge District 50, which tries to organize everybody from shoe clerks to clam diggers, had roused A.F.L. leaders' bitter complaints that it was poaching in their fields. Now Lewis was free to pour into District 50 the $200,000-plus which U.M.W. has been paying yearly to the A.F.L. treasury. In District 50, headed by John's 58-year-old brother, Denny, the' Great Man had a juggernaut to propel, if he chose, toward a third major labor organization...
...sabotage charges. Minister of Interior Jules Moch, a tall, dark, Communist-hating Socialist, told the Assembly that he had authorized police and troops to fire on rioters if necessary. Moch also said that newly mobilized reservists would be ready by Wednesday of this week, and that, thereafter, "in every mine and in every factory where men want to work . . . they will be free...
...operation is finished, and in the hardly lighted dormitory I watch for the man's awaking. Scarcely has he recovered consciousness when he stares about him and ejaculates again & again, 'I've no more pain! I've no more pain!' His hand feels for mine and will not let it go. Then I begin to tell him and the others in the room that it is the Lord Jesus who has told the doctor and his wife to come to the Ogowe, and that white people in Europe give them money to live here...
...proposition that "our outfit won the war single-handed." A pretentious quickie with this theme was Newspaperman Robert Allen's Patton-worshiping history of the Third Army, Lucky Forward. Patton's own War As I Knew It was much better written, naturally more authoritative, a rich mine of precepts-into-practice for students of warfare. A superior war book of a different kind was the late John Gilbert Winant's Letter from Grosvenor Square, a moving account of wartime faith that was a reproof to postwar disillusionment. Other solid achievements: the first two volumes of Samuel Eliot...