Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That, 40 years ago, was Mary Harris ("Mother") Jones, famed organizer of strikes and unions, Irish-born, matriarch of the new and struggling United Mine Workers of America. Aged almost 60 at her first strike, she led violent mobs, faced bullets, bayonets, stumptalked despite police for many a year. Her tongue lashed the "tyrants" opposing union labor, her wit roused the drooping morale of many a waning revolt. The climax of her career as a labor agitator came at the mine "massacre" at Ludlow...
...Curran: You speak for yourself. Keep these words in your mouth. Don't put them in mine. Trap...
...Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker of North Carolina to the Supreme Court was rising a tide of Senate opposition. It came from two quarters: 1) Union Labor, because in the Red Jacket coal case Judge Parker had sustained an injunction protecting a " yellow-dog" contract from the United Mine Workers of America;* 2) Negroes, because Judge Parker, in a 1920 campaign, was supposed to have said that the G. 0. P. did not want the black race in politics...
When he was 16, Alexander Siemel ran away from home in Riga, Latvia. When he was 21, he left Manhattan for Brazil. Thirteen years ago, aged 27, he went to live in the jungles at the headwaters of the Amazon to mine diamonds. That did not pay too well, so he took up tiger hunting...
...burning bean for a head, and his eyes full of spears, spads and spitches;" about the man with long arms who held up the sky when it was falling but took his time about it. (Said he: "Hurry isn't for me. Hurry is no worry of mine.") The conversation is irrelevant and entertaining, the kind of children's cross questions and crooked answers sometimes overheard by invisible adult ears...