Word: miner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then why do foundations make the mistakes they do? Said Secretary Moe: "Senator Guggenheim,* as you know, was a miner, a mining man, and he understood what a grubstake was . . . He used to say: 'When you are grubstaking, you take chances. You act on the best evidence you've got, but still you have got to take chances.' We who operate really on the frontiers of knowledge and understanding have to recognize that we are not the Almighty. And not being the Almighty, we can't find out everything ... If [applicants for a grant] are members...
...Mine. Bill Green was 15 when he went to work beside his English-born father in the central Ohio coal fields. He soon observed that the companies were cheating the miners by paying only for large chunks of coal which did not fall through a 2-in. mesh. Green's reaction was typically undramatic. He went on working in the mine, became a first-rate miner, and for many years drew the highest pay at Morgan-Run. He joined the U.M.W., rose through its ranks to become (1906) state president. He got elected to the Ohio state senate...
Died. William Green, 82, Ohio-born coal miner, longtime (since 1924) president of the American Federation of Labor; of a heart attack; in Coshocton, Ohio (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...simple story is told without heroics or false sentiment. It is mostly a movie of waiting and of silences at the pithead and in the pit as the rescuers work their way toward the trapped men. "There's nothing to do but wait," says one miner's wife stoically. Except for an occasional Scottish song, the picture has no musical score-only the constant sounds of ticking clocks, dripping water and heavy breathing...
Died. Philip Murray, 66, Scottish-born coal miner who went to the pits when he was ten, in 1936 became chairman of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, and in 1940 president of the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations; of a heart attack; in a San Francisco hotel room (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...