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...enjoyed an income of $500,000 a year. Ellin Mackay, second daughter of wealthy Clarence (Postal Telegraph) Mackay and his blue-stocking wife (author of Stone of Destiny) had grown up at Harbor Hill, the $6,000,000 country estate at Roslyn, L.I. that tough old miner John (Comstock Lode) Mackay gave Clarence Mackay for a wedding present...
Socialist Greenwood had just lost a fight to expel Nye Bevan from the Party for a revolt against the topside line. He had even threatened to resign if Bevan were upheld. But on the showdown Greenwood had to eat his threat. Defiant Nye Bevan, a onetime Welsh miner and long a loud voice for Labor's militant left, had won a significant victory...
...TANANA ICE BREAKS" gets blacker type in the Fairbanks News-Miner than a 2,000-plane raid on Germany. The Ice Pool is big business. Since it is a lottery and cannot use the mails, ballots are flown or mushed by dog team to remote settlements. Since February, as for 27 years past, thousands of Alaskans have guessed the day, hour and minute that the ice would break, backed their hunches at $1 a throw. Last week eleven tickets (at $10,000 each) tied for the winning minute...
Friends. Voronov was witty, shrewd, well-read. He made friends easily. Among them were Klim Voroshilov, the pudgy ex-miner who became War Commissar, and a young air officer named Alexander Novikov, who seemed destined for great ness. Among them, too, was Joseph Stalin...
...Said one miner to an Evening Standard reporter: "It's like this: the boys at the front are fighting for us and we are fighting for them. If we don't fight for our rights, now, there won't be any rights for them when they come home...