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Senate confirms Dr. James Boyd as Mine Bureau director
Washington March 22 The Senate voted 50 to I against the opposition of John L Lewis to confirm Dr James Boyd as director of the Bureau of Mines Boyd had been serving without pay since December 1947 Lewis head of the United Mine Workers led a walkout involving more than 425 000 miners and 70 000 railway workers halting mines east of the Mississippi The confirmation overturns prior opposition and marks a second reversal for Lewis who argued Boyd lacked practical mine safety experience
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