Word: miner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...page of valuable documentation of George Orwell's porcine commissar whose classic formula was: "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." Similarly, Author Hodgkinson has fun with the word peace (mir) and the bellicose roarings of those who advocate it, including the Czech miner who promised to "batter the warmongers to death with peace...
...Russell Kelce, 58, was elected president of Peabody Coal Co., the nation's No. 2 commercial coal producer (No. 1: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal), succeeding Otto Gressens, who became board chairman. Son of a Pittsburg, Kans. miner, Kelce went into the pits at 15, by the time he was 22 owned his own mine in Oklahoma. In 1924 Kelce moved into small Sinclair Coal, which actually owned no mines and acted only as a coal seller. In a few years he made the Sinclair group into one of the nation's biggest producers, with 17 mines in six states...
Kept on ice for two weeks at congressional expense had been Harry Miner, a French Canadian whose profession is to smuggle babies across the U.S. border for adoption (at a price) in the U.S. But Miner had jumped the gun on the hearings, with a North American Newspaper Alliance description of his activities. After this happened, Kefauver received a chin-up note from one of his staffers: "Estes, at first blush this sounds bad, but it really is not. It will steal a little thunder, but at the same time it will really 'boom' our hearings...
...Harry Miner proved to be a singularly unrepentant witness. When asked to explain his smuggling activities, he roared indignantly: "You call bringing in a baby smuggling? That's giving a baby a home!" Even Estes Kefauver did not find an answer for that sentiment. But the hearings were by no means a total loss, since Kefauver managed to wind up with a virtuous line: "It's certainly a fine thing for kids to know about the Ten Commandments...
Homemade Ballad. One night in the Bucket of Blood saloon at Virginia City, Nev., Emrich heard a miner bellow, "Who shot Maggie in the freckle?" Back to his room he went to compose a ballad of his own that was eventually brought back to him from Australia as an original...