Search Details

Word: mobley (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...members of his old local never dug coal again but they kept their local's charter by paying their dues regularly as they worked at other jobs around Coshocton. Brother Hugh Green, who had also dug his living in Morgan Run, got work in a pottery kiln. Ben Mobley, whose Sister Jennie became Billy Green's wife, turned to gravedigging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Loyal Local | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...rules they could try Billy Green if John L. Lewis pressed his expulsion order, the Morgan Run unionists became more interested in their local than they had been for years. They would show Lewis how they regarded Billy Green. But John Lewis withheld his expulsion order. Last week Gravedigger Mobley could wait no longer. Apparently as a challenge to John Lewis, he let the world know that of the Morgan Run local's twelve remaining members, only one, President J. R. McCormick, who is a paid U. M. W. organizer, would vote to expel Unionist Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Loyal Local | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next