Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee's Chairman Pat Harrison who, having failed by one vote to beat Kentucky's Alben Barkley for the Senate Democratic Leadership last summer, no longer feels any inhibitions about speaking out on fiscal policies which may or may not have Presidential favor. Said he: "The main thing I have in mind is employment, and if private industry is given some encouragement it will help. Today, if a corporation owes money it has to pay a penalty tax and if it wants to expend money it has to pay a penalty tax. I am opposed to penalizing...
...went aboard a warship which took him 1,000 miles up the Yangtze to Chungking. Foreign Minister Wang Chung-hui and Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung announced they were going to Hankow, with the War Ministry slated to establish itself just across the river at Wuchang. Obviously the main purpose of such announcements last week was to impress the world with a notion that whatever cities Japanese troops succeed in taking there will always be other cities containing part of the "Chinese Government." Generalissimo Chiang, although still Premier, was reported hourly about to turn the Premiership over...
...Northwestern's main campus is in suburban Evanston. On its Chicago Campus are medical and dental schools (for which Mrs. Montgomery Ward gave $3,000,000), a law school, a business school...
...centre around the wealthy Thibault family, they have little in common with the long, naturalistic family chronicles, of which Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks is the prime example, that have become familiar to U. S. readers. Nor do they resemble Jules Remains' many-volume Men of Good Will. Main difference is that Martin du Gard avoids detailed accounts of the social and economic background, tells his story in succinct, dramatic scenes. Suggestive, lucid, ironic. The Thibaults is written with a restraint that reminds some French critics of Flaubert, with a serenity of tone that is extraordinary in a period...
...taken many of his opinions from humbler authorities who include "Mrs. Huang, an amah in my family; a Soochow boatwoman with her profuse use of expletives; a Shanghai street car conductor ... a lion cub in the zoo; a squirrel in Central Park in New York. . . ." But his main guide is himself...