Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...united labor slate would sweep the field, was Richard W. Reading, long-time city clerk. The C. I. O. candidate was an oldtime Democrat named Patrick O'Brien, Michigan's 69-year-old veteran attorney general who made his liberal name as circuit judge during the copper mine strikes in Michigan before the War. A. F. of L. belatedly entered John W. Smith, who was Detroit's mayor in the middle 1920s and has been trying to get back into this office off & on ever since. Throughout the campaign the sole issue...
...57th, the fourth held in Denver. There in 1894 the late Samuel Gompers received his first and only defeat for the A. F. of L. presidency. There in the same building 1 6 years ago William Green, then the inconspicuous pink-cheeked secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, uprose to nominate John L. Lewis for the A. F. of L. presidency. Mr. Lewis was defeated but three years later he returned the courtesy by boosting Bill Green into the job he could not get himself...
From the coal mine town of Bradford, Ala., last week came a unique tale of lynching. According to Special Officer F. L. Brittain of the Alabama By-Products Corp., which runs Bradford's mines, a mob of "several thousand Negroes" gathered outside a beer parlor called the "Bloody Bucket," accused two white men of assaulting a Negro woman in a wood near the "Bloody Bucket," threatened to lynch them...
More colorful than either old President Spievak or new President Aunger is Philadelphia Limb Manufacturer Charles Harris Davies who has been minus part of his left leg since a coal mine accident when he was a boy, now does a thriving trade in aluminum limbs, has branches as far away as Argentina. He irks his confreres by being flamboyant, stealing publicity from the convention. This year, to circumvent him, the convention appointed a publicity committee. But, while the more serious minded of the delegates sat down to ponder such questions as whether they were professionals or business...
Overlooked, however, was the fact that Hemingway is far from being a run-of-the-mine writer, and so not entirely subject to such standards. Disregarded also were certain further clues. Green Hills of Africa, by its very ill-temperedness, hinted that the author, too, was worried. Death in the Afternoon, from one aspect a kind of huge "Anatomy of Death," contains much information on its author's basic philosophy. "All stories," he remarked there, "end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. . . . There is no lonelier man in death, except...