Word: ma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain, where it is traditional to make business appointments ''between half past four and a quarter to eight," few people were surprised when Francisco Franco's elaborately touted final offensive against Catalonia, first threatened four weeks ago, again failed to materialize last week, was postponed from mañana (tomorrow) to mañana (tomorrow). What attacks there were on the Aragon front were all on the Leftist side. A brave but foolhardy attack by Catalan militiamen against a Rightist stronghold known as Hill, 1100 was beaten back after a loss of some 400 men caught...
...persuade the State Department to help put the Windsor tour on a more appropriate footing. By this time, he had informed the U. S. that the correct way to address the couple-whom he punctiliously avoided calling by name, referred to them as "my friends"-was "Sir for him, Ma...
...Monte Carlo, starting a six-month U. S. tour. Balletomanes were pleasantly surprised to find Massine still a member of the troupe. Successful Impresario Wassily de Basil (whose last two U. S. tours grossed more than $1,000,000 each) had temporarily made up his differences with his maître de ballet and choreographer (TIME, Aug. 30). But Massine will join René Blum's ballet next year with a new U. S. corporation, World-Art, Inc., backed by Julius Fleischmann and other rich patrons...
...Most sensational probe was that in Texas in 1926, during Governor "Ma'' Ferguson's term, when a school superintendent testified an American Book Co. salesman had asked him how he would like to have his $3,600 salary doubled. During the NRA textbook code hearings, however, a publisher estimated $500,000 was spent by the industry in an unspecified period for dinners for book buyers. Most agents and educators still see nothing wrong in an agent reporting openings for better jobs to teachers and officials to whom he hopes to sell books...