Word: minerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strict truth, the debate was not over. During the convention, United Mine Workers' President Lewis had inserted in the convention record a catalog of accusations against the shortcomings of Green & Co.'s administration. No Federation action, said Miner Lewis, had been taken on 46 Congressional bills urged at the previous annual meeting. A. F. of L. had failed to push for equality of wages for women, had ignored 24 studies and investigations ordered by the delegates in 1934. Last week the record of last month's convention was available at A. F. of L.'s headquarters...
...substitute a different judgment for that of Congress." Supreme Court: "Where the effect of intrastate transactions upon interstate commerce is merely indirect, such transactions remain within the domain of state power." Judge Hamilton: "The mining of coal may not affect interstate commerce, but combined with the work of the miner, the transportation and marketing thereof may become interstate commerce in its entirety." Supreme Court: "If the commerce clause were construed to reach all enterprises and transactions which could be said to have an indirect effect upon interstate commerce, the Federal authority would embrace practically all the activities of the people...
...president last week was slight, sparse-haired Dr. Frank Casto of Cleveland, who wears jaunty clothes and carries a silver cigaret case, believes in old-fashioned all-around dentists, grows sarcastic on the subject of single-track specialists. Elected president for 1936 last week was Dr. Leroy Matthew Simpson Miner, dean of Harvard's Dental School, president of the New England Dental Society. Bespectacled Dr. Miner, who looks almost as studious as he is, is that rara avis, a doctor both of Dentistry (Harvard) and of Medicine (Boston University). Incoming president, elected last year, is Dr. George B. Winter...
...Loroy M. S. Miner, dean of the Harvard Dental School, has been chosen president-elect of the American Dental Association at the business session of its annual convention, it was announced yesterday. Dr. Miner will automatically become president one year from now. He is the first dentist from New England to receive this honor since...
Roared a Seaham miner at Lord Privy Seal MacDonald last week: "After 40 years of public life telling funny stories, aren't you sick and tired...