Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Along the poplar-flickering roads south of Paris last week rolled two camions each bearing an enormous head. They were bound for the little village of Le Mas-Rillier, which has sunned itself for 2,000 years on a mountain top near Lyons, overlooking the Rhone Valley. The heads were those of a Virgin and Child. Joined to concrete bodies, they will complete the largest statue in the world...
...year slight, greying Josephine Roche became heir to the minority interest of her late conservative father, John J. Roche, in the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., blood was spilled on another page of the grim history of Colorado's mine wars. To Vassar-educated Miss Roche, who had spent 19 years as a social worker, that was bitter: six diggers had been killed in a strike riot within sight of the gaunt tipple of Rocky Mountain Fuel's Columbine mine...
...opponent of the nonunion policy of the Colorado coal field, she got ready to fight it. Within a few months she bought the interest of Denver Capitalist Horace Bennett and gained control of $10,000,000 R. M. F. Then to Josephine Roche's office was summoned Rocky Mountain Fuel's general counsel, the late progressive U. S. Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan. To Senator Costigan went leaders of Colorado's struggling mine unions. Late in the summer of 1928 they signed a famed document: the first mine union contract in Colorado's history. Its far-seeing...
Meanwhile, under the pressure of the New Deal and public opinion, the entire Colorado coal field had been unionized. Paradoxically, it hurt Rocky Mountain Fuel. Union men who once had demanded R. M. F. coal, were now willing to buy from any union mine. R. M. F. sales leveled off, ran a deficit year after year...
Last week, unable to effect a compromise that would keep R. M. F. out of ruinous reorganization, she stepped out. Old Vice President John R. Lawson, onetime president of Colorado's Federation of Labor, resigned and took three months' pay. Into Rocky Mountain Fuel's offices in Denver moved William Taylor, president of Cleveland's Coal Mine Management Co. His aim: to reorganize R. M. F.. put it back on a paying basis. Colorado mine union leaders talked to Reorganizer Taylor, said they were satisfied no change in labor policies was intended...