Word: minerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bolero (Paramount). Set in the 1910s, this picture features Maurice Ravel's famed composition (written in 1928), calls a cabaret a night club, omits the maxixes and bunny-hugs of the period in favor of jazz steps and a fan dance by Sally Rand. A Belgian-born coal miner named Raoul (George Raft) becomes a dancer. As he rises in the world, he casts off partner after partner because they try to mix pleasure and business. He acquires an able partner in Helen (Carole Lombard), but loses her when he talks of going to war as a good publicity...
...boasted so many members (360,000), never before had so many delegates (1,700) attended a U. M. W. convention. There was a whole sea of new faces, delegates from areas hitherto un-unionized before the NRA coal code took effect. President Roosevelt, whose recovery program had raised every miner's pay check from 20% to 300%, was God-blessed as the greatest humanitarian since Lincoln...
...trousers. Although the Press was unanimously outraged over the incident, few papers chose to print the photographs of the victims as a Horrible Example. Among those that did were the Oakland Post-Enquirer, Santa Cruz News and Sentinel, Los Angeles Herald & Express, Medford (Ore.) Mail-Tribune, Prescott (Ariz.) Journal-Miner, Centralia (Wash.) Chronicle, Oklahoma City News, Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, Gastonia (N. C.) Gazette, Anderson (S. C.) Independent, Johnson City (Tenn.) Staff News, Kingston (N. C.) Free Press, New York City Daily News, Mirror, American and Journal. The Los Angeles La Opinion painted shorts on Holmes, lengthened Thurmond's shirt...
...nation, across it and back, visiting all manner of places and institutions. She has traversed its skies and its surface so thoroughly that, in epitomizing her ubiquity for the ages, the New Yorker pictured two coalminers at work in the earth's bowels (see cut, p. 12). One miner is saying: "For gosh sakes! Here comes Mrs. Roosevelt...
...After two more conferences, President Roosevelt persuaded the "captive" coal mine owners of Pennsylvania to grant their employes the check-off system, whereby the company pays a miner's union dues for him out of his wages. This concession was expected to end the long-lived captive mine strike. Same day the President mediated the price of rails whose purchase the Government was to finance for railroads (see p. 52). The four U. S. railmakers had entered identical bids on the 844,000-ton order: $37.75 a ton. Railroad Co-Ordinator Eastman, who had cried "Collusion!" at the offer...