Word: main
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week while blizzards were freezing the North 75,000 people baked on Miami Beach, three times the peak number reported in 1926. There, too, 45,000 visitors filled all available accommodations. In Tampa Barren Collier's hotels, Floridan and Tampa Terrace, were 85% full, reopened their main dining rooms closed all last year. Visitors were warned not to go to Palm Beach and Miami unless they had reservations. The best hotels, all full, were charging...
...from Mount Momotombo, most perfect of the volcanoes Sandino and his countrymen reverence as their national emblem. Farther north; 100 mi. through the jungle, was the peacetime residue of his followers, sleeping among the farms and mines of his El Cooperative Rio Coco settlement. When the car reached the main palace gate, it was stopped by a squad of native guardsmen. The little brown men waved their rifles, ordered everybody out of the machine. They pushed aside Father Sandino and the Minister of Agriculture. Sandino, his brother and his two generals they hustled into a motor truck. The truck careened...
...that he is just as ambitious and more clever is becoming increasingly apparent. What his next move is going to be is, I think, fairly clearly adumbrated by the rumors which are being spread--and there is no doubt under whose auspices the spreading is being done. The main rumor has it that there may be a Hapsburg restoration; but circulating a bit more surreptitiously is another rumor, that in order to prepare Austria for the restoration, Prince Starhemberg may find it necessary to proclaim himself Regent as Admiral Horthy did in Hungary...
...other hand, if the depression deepens and the European crisis becomes still more acute, the League may be reduced to a group consisting of France. Poland and the Little Entente whose main object will be to preserve infect the Treaty of Versailles...
...John Floyd had tried less arduously to include all the queer people in the Graham book and treated them as incidental to his main theme, his play might have made more sense. As it is, Whitey seems less than an immortal hero but Hal Skelly's teetering performance gives the play what vitality it has. Its fundamental defect is that libeling Hollywood has long since ceased to be sufficient grounds for drama...