Word: hamilton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lillie Hamilton can look out the back window of her boxy clapboard house in Mink Branch, Ky., and see the family business, a small coal mine burrowed into the hillside. One chill morning last month, seven men-including three of her sons and a grandson-were wedged 700 ft. down a narrow tunnel, crawling on their knees and blasting loose great chunks of bituminous coal with an explosive gel. Suddenly, a monstrous explosion shattered the Appalachian quiet. The Joyce Ann shaft (named for a Hamilton widow) had become a quarter-mile-long cannon, and the men inside fodder...
...MSHA is properly enforcing small-mine safety. Yet Government fiat may finally be unable to make hard-scrabbling independent operators work as safely as the sophisticated corporate giants. The Mink Branch mine had passed all of its 17 federal and six state inspections; just a few days before Lillie Hamilton's sons blew themselves up, in fact, they had spent eight hours in an MSHA safety seminar. "You still find a terrible fatalism out there," says Joseph Brennan, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association. "An attitude that says, 'This is mining, you have to expect accidents...
...White House lunch followed a joint session of Congress that was marked by a rare bipartisan cheer. Attending were such ancient adversaries as Florida Representative Claude Pepper, 81, once a red hot New Dealer, and New York's venerable Hamilton Fish, 93, who was stigmatized and immortalized in F.D.R.'s 1940 campaign refrain lambasting three conservative Republican Congressmen, "[Joseph] Martin, [Bruce] Barton and Fish." Among the speakers: Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, who was first elected as a Congressman in 1932; and F.D.R. himself, heard in recordings. Pepper drew guffaws by recounting...
Among the politicians that expect to attend are W. Hamilton Jordan, former White House chief of staff in the Carter administration, and David R. Gergen, assistant to President Reagan for communications...
...advantages of a Phi Beta Kappa key [Dec. 28] is its pawn value. In 1935 I hocked mine (Hamilton College, 1930) for $5 to help pay for food and fuel. Thomas C. Grubb Mount Vernon, Ohio