Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also the first airline to span Canada, bridging the 2,688 miles between Montreal and Vancouver. The 130,000,000 U. S. citizens have only just begun to support their three transcontinental air routes. Whether the passenger traffic from 11,120,000 Canadians could support one did not bother Trans-Canada's operators. The line is Government-controlled and should pay its way by airmail revenue alone...
...became the News's business manager. Every March 25 his St. Dismas piece crept a little nearer the front page. And on that day MacMurphy would write again the homely praises of his favorite saint: "There are so many better advertised saints, all specialists, that few mortals bother much with this hoodlum saint, who roams the outfield of eternity, making shoestring catches of souls-a saint who has no following to speak of, no medals, no propaganda. There's nothing to recommend him, really, except the fact that to no other saint in the calendar...
...social sciences at the University of Chicago; swank Mr. Harriman, long interested in the New Deal, chairmans the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council. Last week he flew to Des Moines from his Union Pacific's Sun Valley playground, on Harry Hopkins' advice did not bother to bring his dinner jacket. The one Speaker Hopkins wore was rented at the last minute...
When asked about the dangers of the expedition, he replied, "I have been told that There are many bandits in that region but I doubt that they will bother me particularly. The thing that most concerns me is the Japanese, who may bomb the main railway line. In that case I will proceed by car, mule-pack, or on foot. I am travelling along because in the first place it will be easier to get through; then, too, it is less expensive...
Still Alben Barkley looked comfortable and confident. When the voting began, he didn't bother to keep a tally to see how it was going...