Word: irregularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serious. Powers Hapgood-a graduate of Harvard (1921) and nephew of Editor Norman Hapgood, former Minister to Denmark; husband of Mary Donovan who was Socialist candidate in 1928 for Governor of Massachusetts; himself Socialist candidate in 1932 for Governor of Indiana-was not so many years ago, as an irregular union organizer in the coal mines of West Virginia, very much at odds with John L. Lewis. Now secretary for the C.I.O. in New England, he appeared at Lewiston fresh from a conference with Leader Lewis. When strikers emerged from a union meeting and tried again to cross the Androscoggin...
...York group of stockholders who control the institution to meet the demands of the FDIC. Local officers of the bank have attempted to handle its affairs conscientiously, but the power lies with the group of New York interests." The New Jersey Banking Commissioner chimed in that "certain alleged irregular practices" had been under "surveillance...
...final reconciliation. Francis Larrimore would be given her chance to show herself in her debut, and all would be quite regular, and very, very plain. As a matter of fact, "John Meade's Woman" does end with the necessary reconciliation, but not before many quite irregular things have happened...
...cherry-rimmed Tidal Basin, directly on the North-South axis from the White House through the Washington Monument. The building will serve no purpose other than to house a monumental statue of Thomas Jefferson similar to the one now in the Capitol. To give the building due impressiveness, the irregular Tidal Basin will be drained, its cherry trees uprooted and transplanted. Three formal reflecting pools will be constructed to take the Basin's place, new streets will have to be built and paved, new traffic arteries allocated. Washington engineers estimate that nearly five times the voted...
...quit. But that virtuoso of unnatural virtue has been effectively laid low, and today we hear about Tobias (Smelfungus) Smollett, the good-natured ship's surgeon who was exhilaratingly picaresque both in his life and in his heroes, and Laurence Sterne, the scurrilous curate who poured his irregular soul into the shockingly irregular Tristram Shandy...