Word: miners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard Bitten. In San Manuel, Ariz., editors of the San Manuel Miner announced temporary suspension of home delivery after Deliveryman Ralph Vira-montez resigned because he was tired of fighting off the stray dogs around town...
EDOUARD PIGNON, 50, a rugged son of a Pas-de-Calais miner, who likes to build up massive forms overflowing with a healthy sensuality. Pignon believes: "It is a question of massing, of warping the surface, and not of hollowing...
Little was known about him except that he was the son of a miner in the Kursk region, joined the Bolsheviks in 1918 and served as a soldier in the civil war. As a party worker in the '30s. he caught the attention of Politburocrat Lazar Kaganovich (now First Deputy Premier and apparently No. 8 or 9 in the hierarchy), who brought him to Moscow. After the vast 1937-38 purge had carried off hundreds of thousands of his comrades, Khrushchev was sent into the Ukraine to help build up the demoralized party organization. He became a Ukrainian expert...
...West Virginia, more recently a member of the West Virginia legislature; of cancer; in Bethesda. Md. Elected to the Senate when he was 29 as a New Deal Democrat, Holt waited six months until he reached the required age of 30 before taking his seat, quickly alienated his coal-miner supporters by filibustering to death the Guffey-Vinson coal bill, was characterized by the United Mine Workers as "the dirtiest traitor of all." Defeated in the 1940 primary, he retired temporarily from politics, turned Republican in 1950, got the G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination but lost the election...
...Palace makes a bright pendant on any hotel chain. Opened in 1875 by Mrs. Johnston's grandfather, U.S. Senator William Sharon, who made millions in the Comstock lode and never got over his miner's habit of carrying a pistol, the $5,000,000 Palace was then considered the most luxurious hotel in the world. It had 800 rooms, and the smallest was 16 ft. square. Sarah Bernhardt stayed in an eight-room, suite with her parrot and baby tiger; General Grant came as a Civil War hero, had to mumble speeches when he lost his false teeth...