Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Your opinion-pardon me, TIME, does not express opinions-your description of Boake Carter's "sinister British baritone" and "his freedom to express any partisan opinion that pops into his head" (TIME, April 13) agrees with mine...
...Roosevelt made official caretaker of the Blue Eagle's benes, announced the organization of a "NonPartisan League," whose partisan object was to swing Labor's votes to Roosevelt next autumn. Co-organizers of the League were two potent proponents of industrial unionism: John Llewellyn Lewis, whose United Mine Workers had already pledged themselves to Roosevelt, and President Sidney Hillman of Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Their immediate aim was to keep Postmaster General Farley from naming President Daniel Tobin of the A. F. of L.'s Teamsters' Union, a reactionary craft unionist, to be the New Deal...
Fortnight ago in Nova Scotia the old Moose River Gold Mine collapsed, entombing its new owners, Toronto's Dr. David Edwin Robertson, Lawyer Herman Russell Magill and their employe, Alfred Scadding (TIME, April 27). The Moose River catastrophe set all Canada tingling with excitement as rescue crews began to dig, drill and dynamite...
...Robertson, 52, recovered rapidly. Alfred Scadding, 44, had a bad case of trench foot. Dr. Robertson promised to write the story of their adventure, the profits to go, first, for Scadding's care, second, to the Canadian Red Cross to aid in future mine disasters. Proud, as was every Briton, of the endurance of the victims and the pluck of the rescuers, King Edward VIII cabled Lord Tweedsmuir, his Governor General in Ottawa: "I am thrilled with admiration. ... I should be glad to have further news of Dr. Robertson and Mr. Scadding...
...acquit under-worldlings. When he is denounced by an outraged judge and his brother (Owen Davis Jr.) is killed, Dix changes his ways, joins the Department of Justice as a special investigator. The gangsters, having stolen a large amount of gold bullion, buy a Nevada ranch with an abandoned mine ship out the gold as newly-produced metal. Matters are made harder for Dix when he becomes enamored of the ringleader's sister (Margaret Callahan), but he is helped when the "gold miners" start shooting each other...