Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe in the totalitarian state," declared Mr. Hopkins. "I don't want to vote in the same party primary, or for the same candidates, as any man whose fundamental political views are opposed to mine...
...Dramatist Walter Prichard Eaton, Philosopher Harry Allen Overstreet. Their students include college graduates as well as men and women who never went to high school. In its first six months, National Educational Alliance has made a small profit, but President Crawley does not expect it to be a gold mine. The editors of The Popular Educator say they will be satisfied if their papers teach people to think...
...Whose principal duty is to trudge from house to house peddling small policies and collecting 10?, 25? or 50? a week from a clientele too poor or too feckless to pay by the year." (The underlining is mine...
...union affairs, voted to suspend their 5? monthly dues to C.I.O.-a move highly ominous if Homer Martin succeeds in retaining control of his 400,000-member union. Having lavished on steel and textile organization and on politics a great part of the reserve funds of his own United Mine Workers (the unsuccessful attempt to nominate U.M.W. Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Kennedy for Governor of Pennsylvania cost C.I.O. and U.M.W. a whacking $503,000), Mr. Lewis is confronted by the fact that President David Dubinsky of the International Ladies' Garment Workers, C.I.O.'s best-heeled union, has threatened...
...blow to Mr. Green, however, was the news at week's end that United Mine Workers had signed contracts with 22 of the Harlan County, Ky. coal operators many of whom had been scheduled to stand trial for violating the Wagner Act. Mr. Green, who has been trying to sign up the operators with his rival Progressive Miners of America, charged that the quid pro quo was a "brazen and unlawful" deal arranged by Mr. Lewis under which NLRB would withdraw its charges against the operators, the Department of Justice would quash its criminal indictments. This was promptly denied...