Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convention in Denver that Mr. Lewis was motivated by "consuming" political ambition. Mr. Lewis admitted "some political ambitions." They were, he said: 1) the re-election of Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, 2) to see Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, promoted next year from Lieutenant Governor to Governor of Pennsylvania. 3) to see New York State's American Labor party develop into "a major political party" and 4) to see the "C. I. 0. ticket win in Detroit tomorrow...
...abortive campaign Mr. Woll had bitterly opposed Mr. Lewis-something which Mr. Lewis never forgot or forgave. Therefore with the aid of other rebels against the dead hand, Mr. Lewis pitch-forked into the nation's No. 1 Labor office, the pink-cheeked secretary-treasurer of his United Mine Workers. So William Green, a quiet, cautious character virtually unknown out side his own union, became and still is, president...
Born in Coshocton, Ohio, in 1873, he followed his British father into the coal mines at 18, soon spied a shorter road to success in the new United Mine Workers. By the Century's turn he was a sub-district president, later Ohio district president, by 1912 Union secretary-treasurer. Meantime he had served two terms in the Ohio Senate, where, as Democratic floor leader, he gained a reputation as a labor liberal. Up to the time John L. Lewis helped boost him into the A. F. of L. presidency, the most conspicuous ability he had demonstrated...
...Colorado" spent most of its time refueling four destroyers, two airplanes, the coast guard cutter "Itasca," and the Navy mine sweeper which was supposed to have refueled the aviators at Howland Island. Captain William Fridell soon tired of this menial task, however, and put for the phoenix Islands, nearly 300 miles south of the equator. The captain figured that winds and current would have driven the lost pair south...
Left. By Author-Playwright Sir James Barrie; an estate of ?167,694; in London. To Actress Elisabeth Bergner he left ?2,000 for "the best performance ever given in any play of mine (The Boy David)." To his divorced wife, Mrs. Mary Cannan, he left ?1,000 and a life annuity of ?600. To his adopted son, Publisher Peter Llewellyn Davies, inspiration for Peter Pan, he left ?6,000 and half the residuary estate. The other half of the residuary estate, in addition to ?30,000 and the royalties from all his works except Peter Pan, he left to Lady...