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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bootleggers and the citizenry whose prosperity rests on their outlaw profits. At his side last week stumped the "King of the Bootleggers," 33-year-old Earl Humphrey, who claims 15.000 'leggers in his Independent Miners & Truckers Association. A slim, shrewd, explosive Welshman who lost a leg in a mine accident, 'Legger Humphrey cried: "We will welcome any impartial investigation by the State Legislature. But any effort by the big coal operators or the State to stamp us out by force will lead inevitably to bloodshed...
When John Llewellyn Lewis wants $1,000,000, all he has to do is assess his 500,000 United Mine Workers $1 each per month for two months. Last week, to build a war chest which would prime the No. 1 U. S. union for any emergency, he announced such assessments. The emergency might be a nation-wide bituminous coal strike, operators having warned last week that they would up the work week from 35 to 40 hours when the current contract expires March 31. Or it might be a steel strike. Some 250 steel company-union leaders rallied...
...artist's devoted wife - translates her dislike of the Wesendonck affair into criticism of Tristan: "Nothing happens in it from beginning to end, just two people bleating and bleating about how much they love each other." She intercepts a love letter, stirs up a series of rumpuses, and Mine Wesendonck agrees to flee with the musician. At the moment of her capitulation the ecstatic composer captures the long-sought theme for his "Liebestod." Mme Wesendonck then understands that when he makes love to her he has in his mind only the bright image of Isolde. This so disconcerts...
...Ahead of the Sand-Walkers there was a band of young men, traveling in 20 wagons, unencumbered by women or children, known as the Jayhawkers, who split off to save themselves when the train bogged down, turned aside to locate what became known as the Lost Gunsight Mine, and never got out of Death Valley either. Only survivors were the families in four wagons trailing behind the Jayhawkers. When, the wagons could go no further, two young scouts pushed ahead, traveled 25 days across the desert, shooting a crow, a hawk and a quail for food, returning with horses from...
Last week Dane Coolidge made the Jayhawkers' tragedy the starting point of a rambling, formless but interesting account of the perils of gold-hunting in the hottest region on earth, the 500 square miles of volcanic rock, salt deposits, borax mines, poison springs and complete desolation that make up Death Valley. Divided into eleven brief chapters and illustrated with 17 excellent photographs by the author, Death Valley Prospectors is partly an account of Author Coolidge's travels through the Valley, partly history as he picked it up from his reading and his talks with Indians and oldtimers like...