Word: ma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that there would be a war, U. S. Army privates rated $13 a month. Then war came after all, the Confederates scared the Yankees at Bull Run, and Union privates got a $100 bounty for enlisting. In 1864, when conscription had at last been voted, pay rose to $14.87. Ma jor General Ulysses Simpson Grant by then was winning the war and buying his salutary whiskey on $2,640 a year (plus keep, four servants). As a lieutenant gen eral and later a full general he received $3,240 to $4,800 (plus keep and servants...
...Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson, twice Governor of Texas (1925-27, 1933-35), now at 65 a fond grandmother. Ma Ferguson left the management of her campaign to her husband, 69-year-old Jim Ferguson, Governor of Texas from 1915 until he was impeached...
...worth it. At last count, 53% of the votes were for Lee O'Daniel (making a run-off primary unlikely). Also-rans in order: Colonel Thompson, Commissioner Hines, Ma Ferguson, Jerry Sadler, "Cyclone" Davis...
...London, the Foreign Office defended the British acquiescence of Japan's demand that the Burma road be closed to munitions traffic for China. The defense: Aside from the fact that China's last ma jor supply line would be partially blocked by torrential rains in the next three months, Britain had acquired from Japan a guarantee that within those three months the Japanese would seek peace with China...
...Pepsodent, which transformed Amos 'n' Andy from a sustaining show into a national institution in 1929. A great one for soap operas, he can still point with pride to such Trammell-promoted shows as Clara, Lu 'n' Em, Fibber McGee and Molly, Betty and Bob, Ma Perkins...