Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WALK THE LINE (Columbia), sings Johnny Cash, "because you're mine." A country and western star, Cash is also welcome on the folk circuit because of his agreeable dark baritone voice and the quiet conviction he brings to even the most outlandish tales. These seven of his own songs include Give My Love to Rose, the message of a fellow dying on the railroad tracks, and Folsom Prison Blues, intoned by a cad who "shot a man in Reno, just to watch...
...said that Johnson had visited Bobby Baker's South Carolina home town in 1960. "Lyndon said, 'Bobby is my strong right arm. I see him first thing in the morning and last thing at night.' But in 1964 Lyndon said: 'Bobby is no protege of mine.' I ask you, is Lyndon Johnson a man of principle...
...Young man," responded the kindly gentleman soberly, "I own this business. It is all mine. This...
...McParlan, posing as a murderer on the run from Buffalo police, wormed his way into the high councils of the Molly Maguires. It was later charged that McParlan acted as an agent provocateur and deliberately whipped up bloodshed. The attacks also changed character: from reprisals against brutal or dishonest mine bosses, the Mollies turned to capricious, Mafialike assaults on anyone who offended one of their band...
...denounced by their Roman Catholic priests, shunned by decent citizens, swamped in a new wave of supposedly more docile immigrants from eastern Europe. The trials were swift and of doubtful legality. No Roman Catholic was allowed on a jury, and the prosecution was headed by Mine Owner Franklin Gowen himself. Several of the condemned men were almost certainly innocent; one was hanged while the courier bearing a reprieve from the Governor hammered on the prison door...