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Last week, in the noisy, crowded House of Commons, miner M.P.s, collars open, hair ruffled, eyes red after two days of debate, raised their voices in the song they remembered at that hour: "Guide me ... Redeemer. . . ." Then they pushed into the "aye" lobby to vote for the nationalization of Britain's mines. They...
...Anna Mae Bain, a miner's wife, stood weeping in the rain, repeating desperately: "Jim will come out alive. He simply has to do that for me and his children." Many other tired women stood in numb silence. The Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Co. had not seen fit to insure its men under Kentucky's workmen's compensation laws, and there would be no benefits for the widows...
...this crisis, while Navy Secretary Forrestal and Chief of Naval Operations Chester Nimitz prayed to the great Mahan, prophet of the doctrine of sea power, Navymen clutched at straws. To the microphone they led strange allies-Miner John L. Lewis, who rumbled that merger would "make for a greater concentration of military power than we have ever had before . . . I am reluctant. . . ." And Catholic Educator (Catholic University of America) Maurice Sheehy, naval chaplain for five years, who cried: "I . . . regard as an evil thing any movement which challenges radically the conditions of life for half a million...
...membership: White House aides and newsmen who had accompanied him on his successful vice-presidential campaign tour last year and on the trip to Potsdam. The name refers to the time Harry Truman and the newsmen went down a Montana copper mine last year. The club pin: a golden miner's pick...
...youth, as a coal miner in Oklahoma, handsome, irascible Major General Patrick Jay Hurley once killed a fractious mule by bashing its head with a two-by-four. Last week Pat Hurley, his Irish blood boiling, flailed an indecisive State Department and killed an official attitude...