Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advance to the State Department, and having emphasized that he was speaking in London for himself, not the Administration, candid Ambassador Kennedy revealed his feelings about the way the crisis was handled and the implications of Munich. Earnestly Mr. Kennedy declared: "It long has been a theory of mine that it is unproductive for both democratic and dictator countries to widen the division now existing between them by emphasizing their differences, which are self-apparent. Instead of hammering away at what are regarded as irreconcilables, they could advantageously bend their energies toward solving their common problems by an attempt...
Replied William Green: "The chairman of the C.I.O. is still making grandstand plays....Even if he resigned as chairman of the C.I.O., he would still remain its dictator behind the scenes, because he would remain as president and dictator of the United Mine Workers of America, the...financial angel of the C.I.O...
...when Bill Jhonson, a "scowling man who had a curled mustache," took a card from his coat. Tom gritted his teeth and "could hardly wait till night to settle with him.'' He riddled Bill Jhonson and all his bandit friends, then studied a map of a gold mine and said, "Guess I better go to sleep." In the morning he tried to clean up Silver City and there was a terrific battle. ''Smoke filled the streets, the shouts of men were drowned in the gun fire, in every store the men of the sheriffs were dragging...
...happens that Dr. Juan Negrin, the Premier of the Spanish Republic, is an old friend of mine. Apparently there were persons in the Medical Bureau who thought it would be a gracious gesture to use our friendship as a basis for collecting money to buy much needed food, clothing, and medical supplies for a people in sore distress. The enterprise was started without my knowledge; when it was under way I did nothing to check it, because the purpose was primarily humanitarian. Despite the protest, the enterprise still seems to me to be in accord with the ideals of helpful...
When Kansas Pipe Line & Gas Co. asked the Federal Power Commission fortnight ago for permission to build a 2,346-mile, $21,470,000 pipe line north through unpiped country to the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota, the National Bituminous Coal Commission, the United Mine Workers and various coal companies were swift to protest (TIME, Sept. 26). Last week the coal-men had new cause for worry. Also lured by the low-grade ores now lying undug at Mesabi for lack of cheap fuel to smelt them, Public Service Gas Co. of Montana asked FPC for permission to build...