Word: ende
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cypress and liveoak river bottoms of South Carolina's coastal fringe near Charleston are festooned with Spanish moss and legend. Here Generals Sumter, Greene and Francis Marion ("The Swamp Fox") harried Tarleton and Lord Rawdon at the Revolution's end. Here Sir Peter Parker's fleet was defeated at Sullivan's Island by General Moultrie, whose name was given to one of the forts near which the Civil War began three generations later. On forested uplands running back from the warm sea stood some of the South's finest oldtime plantations. Along the rivers...
...plan an unusual situation: a Justice of the Supreme Court who is still an executive insider. Since his elevation from SEC, Bill Douglas has been by no means inaccessible to his friend, Jerry Frank, now running that agency, to Janizary Tom Corcoran, and to the President himself. His week-end cruise with Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins last month was probably less to discuss the weather or jurisprudence than matters that make sense...
...end. The Briggs local's smart little Vice President Emil Mazey popped out a demand for the same sort of union shop guarantee which John Lewis won for his coal miners last month...
...women on board. There was Max Loewe, a lawyer, with his wife and two children. There were 150 other children, 106 of them under ten. In the strange, fear-ridden, hope-ridden atmosphere of refugee ships, compounded of anxiety, relief, tension, they waited, living until their voyage's end under the terrible shadow of the red & black swastika ensign that flew from the stern...
Last week the right man with the right backing might have had his pick of several big educational jobs. Smith College, Ohio State University and University of Colorado, among others, had arrived at the end of an academic year during which their presidents retired with no successor in sight. At Ohio State and Colorado the reasons for the regents' indecision were largely political. But when it came to picking a new president, none of these colleges or universities found it easy, because none knew exactly what kind of president it wanted...