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...artist is at his best when he is depicting the stern, hard, grim type of miner who lives in Jerome. With just a few quick lines he brings out all the toil and suffering endured by these men, men who, however, still enjoy life. Another point in which the artist excels is the remarkable effects he achieves by the use of just a few colors. An excellent example of this may be seen in "Arizona Hills...
While Representative Fish was speaking at Sanders Theatre, Bernard entered with two real reds--they were Indians. The Minnesota iron miner, who changed into an impassioned representative of the people, expressed his satisfaction with his own triumphant entry. "I have never listened to a speech by Hamilton Fish without hearing the word Communism," he said...
When Sir Abe Bailey, rich & witty South African gold miner, had one of his legs amputated last summer, Capetown thought he was dead, dropped its flags to half mast.* Last week, suffering from phlebitis (vein inflammation), the doughty 73-year-old lost his other leg, two days later issued a personal bulletin declaring his operation successful, his condition satisfactory...
...convention last week, attended by more than 1,000 delegates representing some 500,000 organized workers mainly in the mining, steel, aluminum, flat glass, textile, rubber and electrical industries, C. I. O. stalwarts appropriated Typographer Phillips as their president, supplemented their noisy endorsement of Miner Kennedy with a sheaf of resolutions militant enough to give the jitters to Miner Green...
...strength by forcing the immediate choice of Coal Commissioner Pleas (rhymes with fez) E. Greenlee of Indiana as chairman. This week the commission unanimously voted to defer selection of a permanent chairman until the President named Mr. Hosford's successor, elected Minority Commissioner Percy Tetlow, an Ohio coal miner, as temporary chairman. Meanwhile Franklin Roosevelt, already heckled by the TVA fuss, was moved to disillusioned comment. Asked a complex question about whether the U. S. would have participated in the World War if it had been fully armed, Franklin Roosevelt wearily replied that it was a bit like saying...