Word: ma
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...miserably, is no longer even mentioned. Largely at fault is the huge drain on the economy resulting from shipments of heavy industrial equipment to the rest of the Soviet bloc; East Germany is the machine shop for Russia (it produces one-half of the Soviet Union's total ma chine imports) and half a dozen other satellite nations. So great is the strain on the economy that Ulbricht's planners last March abruptly put East Germany's airplane industry out of business so that raw materials and labor could be used elsewhere...
...Ma." On that day-Jan. 20, 1925-"Ma"' Ferguson became the second woman ever to take office as a state Governor.* Her husband. James E. ("Farmer Jim") Ferguson, had twice been elected Governor (1914, 1916) and served until his impeachment on charges of misusing public funds. After the Texas legislature stripped him of the right to run for public office again, Farmer Jim decided to run his wife instead. In the campaign. Jim Ferguson did most of the talking, made no effort to hide his scheme to govern Texas in his wife's name. The corn pone slogans...
...days before the Really Big Rich, and few Texans could resist that sort of an appeal. Ma won. A rawboned woman with an American Gothic jaw, she looked as hard as a banker's heart. Actually, she was a college-educated, devoutly religious, well-bred woman who was about as political as peach cobbler. She was, above all, a dutiful wife. Her first act as Governor was to sign an "amnesty" restoring Farmer Jim's right to hold public office. (It was rescinded by her successor.) Though both Fergusons were teetotalers, they opposed Prohibition. In her first term...
...Ma & Pappy. Ma returned happily to her garden and her family, and when, in 1932, her husband told her it was time to run again, she reportedly wept for three nights. But she gamely took off her apron and returned to politics, winning a second lackluster term by 3,000 votes. By 1940, when the aging Farmer Jim instructed her to try one more time, the Ferguson flame had guttered out. Ma was beaten by, of all people, W. Lee ("Pass the biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, a flour miller and hillbilly singer. After Jim Ferguson died in 1944, Ma...
...success of a couple of fine jazz albums that he cut for Columbia with his own student combo, changed his mind. After touring the U.S. with Flutist Herbie Mann and a jazz combo, he settled down to serious composition. His most ambitious work to date: an opera about the Ma Barker mob, which appeals to him because "you need subhuman or superhuman characters in opera" and because he hopes that the role of 220-lb. Ma will "resuscitate the race of Wagnerian sopranos...