Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said, 'Why sure, Joe, I told you last night I would take the job.' Then and there Lewis and Van Horn elected Styles Bridges the third trustee. It was agreed that the three of them would meet the next...
...proposal for distributing the pension fund. His plan: $100-a-month pensions for miners over 62 with 20 years' service, who retired after May 28, 1946. Lewis had wanted to give $100 pensions to all miners over 60 with 20 years' service, no matter when they quit. Van Horn had never made any proposal; he had simply maintained that Lewis' plan was not legal and could never be supported on the 10? royalty which the operators are required to pay on every ton of coal mined...
Lewis "somewhat regretfully" accepted the Bridges plan. Van Horn voted Nay. Bridges announced: "We have solved on a temporary basis the differences, subject to further review." Lewis wired his miners: "PENSIONS GRANTED," which was taken to be a signal to go back to work. Lewis still had Judge Goldsborough angrily hovering over him, but he hoped that the sunshine of temporary peace would dissipate that cloud...
...Vandenberg: during the months of discussion, the man most frequently mentioned for the job had been 56-year-old Paul Hoffman. Hoffman, said Vandenberg, "was found to be the common denominator of the thought of the nation." Hoffman was also well aware of the need to cooperate with Congress, Van added reassuringly. The Senate confirmed him unanimously, in 10 minutes...
...most popular painter in the world today is probably Vincent Van Gogh. The public of today, that honors him, is prone to feel superior to his own public of yesterday, that ignored him, and to forget that a better way to judge its taste is in the respect it pays to the original talents of its own day. The 14 Van Gogh masterpieces on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week had all been painted in the last years of his life. Looking back, it was hard to see how anyone could have been blind to them...