Word: miners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighting arm of the immigrant Irish miners was known as the Molly Maguires, after a legendary heroine of Irish insurrections against the British during Ireland's great famine. In the U.S., the Mollies concealed themselves within the Ancient Order of Hibernians, a legitimate benevolent association of Irish-Americans. They were led by Jack Kehoe, a tall, tough ex-miner turned saloonkeeper; each branch of the society was headed by a "body-master," who could produce a dozen gunmen when needed...
Died. Aleksander Zawadzki, 64, President of Poland, a onetime coal miner who joined the Communist underground in 1923, served the cause with such ardor that Moscow made him a general during World War II, then in 1952 eased him upstairs to become Chairman of the Council of State, a sinecure that relegated him to laying cornerstones and delivering speeches; of cancer; in Warsaw...
...price of Windfall stock as low as 80? before it closed at $1.04. Last week, as the price settled at a limp 78?, both the Ontario Securities Commission and the provincial government began investigations of Windfall's dealings. A BLACK DAY FOR CANADIAN MINING, headlined the respected Northern Miner...
Died. Maurice Thorez, 64, longtime French Communist chieftain, a coal miner turned professional revolutionary, who took control of the party as secretary general in 1934, ran it as a mirror of the Kremlin, slavishly devoted first to Stalin, then to Khrushchev, seeing it grow to nearly 1,000,000 members after World War II only to decline rapidly (current membership: 240,000) in the face of European prosperity, until, suffering from chronic ill health, he "elevated" himself to president last May, leaving everyday tactics to another man; of an apparent heart attack aboard a Russian ship traveling to Yalta...
...Unsaleable Molly Brown is a massive song-and-dancer derived from Meredith Willson's also-ran Broadway musical of 1-960. Defying the laws of levity, it follows an ebullient, money-grubbing Irish lass who marries a miner and gets rich so she can sashay in Denver's high society. When the bluebloods snub her, she flounces off to Yurrup to bring home some dukes and duchesses, finally earns her place among the snobs and saves her marriage-for reasons clear only to musical comedy authors-by surviving the Titanic disaster...