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Died. Mrs. Elizabeth McCourt ("Baby Doe") Tabor, 73, relict of Horace Austin Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor, Colorado miner; by freezing to death; in Leadville, Colo...
Same year Surveyor Hulbert sank his first shaft, last week's Saunders Medalist was born to a miner in Ontario. Brought to the Michigan Copper Country in infancy, James MacNaughton started work at 11, carrying water on the C. & H. coal docks, was later a coal-weigher, then a switchman. He attended University of Michigan, went back to C. & H. a white-collar engineer. For ten years he managed Michigan's richest iron mine, returned once more to C. & H. 33 years ago and has never left it since, rising by traditional stages to the presidency...
...Deal was burly John Llewellyn Lewis, from the bituminous fields of Illinois. He did not denounce the President of the U. S. himself for signing the renewal, but he did savagely attack the President's closest adviser, Donald Richberg, Director of the National Emergency Council and "Assistant President." Miner Lewis began by declaring: "Richberg was not only recreant to his obligations as a public servant, but a traitor to organized labor when he made that recommendation. For Richberg, I express my personal contempt !"† Warming to his work, he later called Director Richberg a Benedict Arnold, labeled...
...hisses, boos and jeers received by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald from his coal-miner constituents at Seaham (TIME, Jan. 28) were really too ominous, decided the Marquess of Londonderry last week. As all London knows, it is Lord and Lady Londonderry who have made life worth living for Scot MacDonald since he broke with his lifetime Labor friends to found the "National Government." Without the heartening balls and banquets in his honor at Londonderry House, Widower MacDonald would be a lonely old man indeed. Last week Lord Londonderry, potent coal tycoon that he is, moved to save Seaham...
...sunny spring morning around 1900, the College was started to learn from the CRIMSON that the Board of Overseers had ordered that the honorary degree which was to be awarded to President McKinley in June, be withheld. From coast to coast the story was a miner scandal until the Lampeen disclosed that if had relieved exhausted CRIMSON editors of their jobs for one night...