Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end Harry Truman heard some other political bad news. Labor was making good its threat to treat Democrats coldly. The A.F.L. in New York and Pennsylvania had already refused a blanket endorsement to either party. So had John Lewis' United Mine Workers in West Virginia. Last week Dan Tobin, boss of the powerful A.F.L. Teamsters and for many years the Democratic National Committee's labor stalwart, took the same straddle...
West Virginia. Last week, John Lewis' United Mine Workers, a potent factor in all West Virginia elections, withheld endorsement of either Democratic Senator Harley Martin Kilgore (who expected U.M.W. support) or peppery, 42-year-old Navy Veteran Tom Sweeney of Wheeling. Harley Kilgore was worried not so much by absence of the miners' blessing as by absence of miners' meat. Smart, energetic Tom Sweeney figured that his chances had risen from 50-to-50 to 52-to-48. The prospect: a hard-run race...
...News Chronicle's Alan Dent wrote: "The emotion this great piece of acting evoked in this normally unenthusiastic breast of mine was re-echoed a thousandfold by the audience's yell of acclamation at the end." W. A. Darlington of the Daily Telegraph thought: "He was never less than first rate, and again and again he touched magnificent." Other critics merely repeated this theme...
...protests hit Washington. Riding the wave was a formidable figure: John L. Lewis. He posed a formidable dilemma: his coal miners could not work on "cereals and vegetables" and there was "grave unrest" among them. Meat-famished miners had walked out of five collieries in Virginia. Touring a mine area in West Virginia, Interior Secretary Julius ("Cap") Krug agreed with Lewis that miners must have more meat...
Flagg considers Jane (The Outlaw) Russell "perhaps the last word in sultritude . . . she slipped her arm in mine and said: 'I like you!' 'Yes-and why?' I asked. 'Because you remind me of my grandfather,' she beamed. Period...