[Pictured: Striking miners in Ward, West Virginia dated Aug. 4, 1931.] 1936: Robinson-Patman Act Walker Evans/Smith Collection/Gado // Getty Images 1936: Robinson-Patman Act In an effort to protect small businesses from predatory pricing and price discrimination and help keep wholesalers from ...
The body count continues to rise throughout Murder Ballads, with 20 children dying onThe Curse Of Millhaven, the album’s riotous anomaly, which opens with a cacophonous racket and becomes, in the words of Casey, a “mad polka”. It’s then the turn of 20 miners to succumb in a blood...