Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tubes, stumped about like a bipedal Stuyvesant. The crew stayed stubborn and the Rotterdam drifted uncomfortably close to the coast of France. Finally Captain Van Dulken capitulated, but he still had a retort. Off the Hook of Holland a company of 30 Dutch Marines clambered aboard. Escorted by the mine layer Van Meerlant, the Rotterdam put into her home port where four indomitable policemen waited on the quay. Nine foreign members of the crew and one Dutch sailor were arrested as agitators. The rest of the 200 crewmembers went to their homes, faced with prosecution later for disobeying orders...
...only never declared anything of the kind as to Denver High School girls but any declarations of mine as to such girls or youth generally have been quite the contrary. I have said over and over again that "the youth of today are the wisest, the most hopeful and the most moral that the world ever saw." . . . My difficulties in Denver, as is well known (see The Dangerous Life, published by Horace Liveright- 1931, for all details) were due to my rights against the bigotry of the Ku Klux Klan when it rose to power there...
...Gentlemen, your agony is about over but mine has just begun," South Trimble, Clerk of the House, told newsman last week after he had announced his conclusion to make public Reconstruction Finance Corp. loans. The Relief Act of last July required the R. F. C. to report its loans to the House and Senate. Did this mean publicity? President Hoover thought not, said he had "assurances"' from Senate leaders that R. F. C. reports would be kept confidential. But Speaker Garner, who forced the report provision into the bill, was of a contrary mind. Besides. Senate leaders...
When day broke over the Wabash. the Dixie Bee bristled with guardsmen's machine guns. The pickets had melted away like mist. The mine ceased operation temporarily while its owners sought permanent protecting injunctions...
Dixie Bee. It was midnight on the Wabash. Eight miles inland from the Indiana bank, 64 haggard non-union miners and one woman held the Dixie Bee coal mine, besieged by an invisible swarm of union pickets. For a day and a night and a day their rifles and revolvers had stood off hundreds, possibly thousands, of John L. Lewis' men, squatting in a cornfield, crouching behind a railroad embankment, sniping from a patch of woods. The barricaded tipple house was pockmarked with bullets. One sharpshooting picket had been drilled dead. Within the mine on burlap sacks lay four defenders...