Word: miner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this country the plan would calm the populace considerably. Take John L. Lewis, for instance. . . . How easy it would be, if we had a king, to knight Lewis. . . . Sir Jonathan Llewellyn Lewisse of Coalhod-on-Cumberland. Isn't it magic? . . . Not a coal miner will listen to him. [Or] a businessman that got obstreperous. . . . You can see him now: Lord Henry Fordson, Earl of V-8-on-Highway...
...despair that infected all classes, from the Queen Mother Elisabeth (once the wife of World War I's beloved King Albert) and her Regent Son Charles to the poorest peasant on the Flanders plain or the meanest miner in the coal-rich Borinage. The upper and middle classes felt a mounting insecurity before social dislocations. The lower classes felt insecurity in everything-and their resentment found a scapegoat in Premier-Pierot, who had spent the war years as head of the Government in Exile in London...
...jovial Major General Patrick Jay Hurley, who has been coal miner, cowboy, mule skinner, lawyer to the Choctaws, buck private and presidential envoy extraordinary, began his newest job: U.S. Ambassador to China. His letters of credence had not arrived from Washington, but Chungking waved aside such formalities. In the American Embassy Pat Hurley held his first press conference, told reporters how he had taken part in parleys between Chiang Kai-shek's Government and the Chinese Communists. It was a strangely unself-conscious tale...
Lady Oakes, svelte, greying, Australian-born widow of multimillionaire Miner Sir Harry Oakes, appeared socially (at the opera in Philadelphia) for the first time since her husband was found murdered in July 1943. She pronounced Philadelphians "good, sound, solid people," planned to depart soon for her first journey to the Bahamas since her son-in-law, Alfred de Marigny, was acquitted of the unsolved murder there...
Died. Jack Miner, 79, famed Canadian ornithologist, founder of a pioneer North American bird sanctuary in Kingsville, Ont. ; after a heart attack; in Kingsville. He clipped aluminum bands stamped with scriptural texts and his address on to birds' legs; received in 1943 the Order of the British Empire from George...