Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lewis, was the inference, and there was evidence to support it. First, he had forced the operators to knock the old no-strike clause out of the coal contract. That would prevent any damage suits for breach of contract under the Taft-Hartley Act. Then, to make sure that mine operators would not go running to the NLRB for help, he had wangled a provision that disputes would be settled in union-management conference...
...highly specialized mine fields there was little chance that the operators could exert their legal right to hire new men to mine the coal, even if they dared. Other labor leaders, who knew that John Lewis was not loony, watched carefully...
...name Gordon, which I inherited, reminds me very painfully that some Scotsman in some other age compelled a grandmother of mine to submit to his desires. In Bermuda I am black and treated as Bermuda treats the black people. So I want to be called by a name that belongs to my race and requires no prefix...
...laughs, "I didn't." As interventor, he built roads, hospitals and schools. Then, in 1941, after a fight with the Dictator's unsavory brother Benjamin, De Barros was fired. He had taken office a poor man; he left it the owner of plantations, textile factories, a dolomite mine and a candy factory...
...This tiresome betrothal of mine with Francesco della Rovere! And you're still not lord of Città del Monte. Six months to wait-six months at least! Perdition...