Word: miner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were still coming when he began an at-home vacation on July 8, dampened his "already ghastly" golf game. By Friday the 13th the Kansas River (called "the Kaw" by Clark and other natives) had broken all records, roared over levees into two city districts. Assistant City Editor Paul Miner woke Clark at 6 o'clock that morning, asked him to "get the hell down to the office as fast as possible." An hour later, Clark was back at work on the flood story...
Like Mushrooms. Ernst Wollweber and the German Communist movement grew up together. The son of a Silesian miner who was killed in World War I, he went to work as a stevedore in his teens. He joined the German Communist Party on the day it was formed, 32 years ago. In the dank darkness of the Communist underground, Wollweber's peculiar talents sprouted like mushrooms. He was shrewd and quick-minded, capable of great courage and matchless brutality, a man capable of believing himself when he snarled, as he often did to a wavering follower: "Death is easy." During...
...nationalist" Communists who, like Tito, are for Marxism but against the way Stalin & Co. boss the show in Marxism's name. The group, calling itself Mouvement Communiste Français, was founded a month ago in the northern coal fields by one Charles Lemoine, a stocky ex-coal miner. At a rally of 400 miners, he cried: "The Communist Party, yesterday our hope, has been unconditionally handed over to Moscow . . . For this party, the interests of the French people are subordinated to the interests of the Soviet Union . . . Let's get together, all victims of Communist attack...
Died. Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, 85, Archbishop of Philadelphia and senior prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S.;* of a stroke, shortly after celebrating Mass on the 61st anniversary of his ordination as a priest; in Philadelphia. Born the fourth child of an Irish immigrant coal miner, he spent 13 scholarly years on the faculty of Philadelphia's St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, in 1903 became Bishop of Nueva Segovia in the Philippines. There he dealt with rebels and lepers, dug graves for cholera victims, paddled his canoe along jungle streams (the diocese could not afford a paddler...
...pushed doggedly forward. A grenade landed in the midst of his squad.* Hero Pittman threw himself upon the missile, smothered the blast with his body. He left a hospital to get his decoration. ¶1st Lieut. Carl H. Dodd, 26, of Company E, 5th Infantry Regiment, a coal miner's son from Kenvir, Ky. On January 30, Lieut. Dodd's platoon was pinned down near Subuk by crossfire from cleverly camouflaged machine-gun nests. Dodd alone stood up, charged the first nest singlehanded, wiped it out. The Chinese started heaving down grenades. Dodd pitched them back, hollered...