Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judge Goldsborough wiped his glasses, hooked them back on his nose, rocked ruminatively back & forth on his red-leather chair. Then he ruled that Lewis and the United Mine Workers, notwithstanding, were in contempt of court. Lewis would return the next day, the judge ordered, to receive his sentence...
...because they organized a national boycott of D. E. Loewe & Co. hats. The hatters were sued under the Sherman antitrust act. In other ways unions have been forced to pay through the nose for various unwise acts. In 1922, when U.M.W. members killed 19 strikebreakers and wrecked the mine of the Southern Illinois Coal Co. near Herrin, the U.M.W. settled out of court for around $700,000. But never had any union treasury taken such a sock as last week's. That is, it would be a sock if the Supreme Court upheld the sentence. The Court said...
...statement is wholly mine, 'tis a poor thing but 'tis mine own.* I'll read it myself." He looked a little mussed but he was now playing the statesman, quiet and dignified, standing above the caterwauling of his enemies. The statement was an order to his miners...
...lyrics are by John Latouche) is almost as rewarding with a score of pleasing melodies. Among the better tunes are "Take Love Easy," "When I Walk With You," "Tomorrow Mountain," "Tooth and Claw," and "Girls Want A Hero." Latouche's lyrics are particularly amusing in "Ore From A gold Mine" and "I Want To Be Bad." The east gives a performance of mixed quality. Alfred Drake (Oklahoma I's Curly) is in fine voice as Macheath, and Avon Long as Careless Love and Zero Mostel in the role of Hamilton Peachum come through with excellent characterizations. On the dancing side...
PITTSBURGH, December 8--The back-to-work movement of the United Mine Workers, after a 17-day walkout that spread slow paralysis through a large part of the nation's economic system, gained momentum tonight with many miners voting to resume their jobs tomorrow...