Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your account of the Conference at Haverford and Swarthmore is sympathetic, lucid, and comprehensive. My brother, who has just come from the Conference, is much impressed by the accuracy of your report in the main...
...large portion of the intensive jollification. Last week, 10,000 40 & 8 voyageurs, with 100 locomotives drawing boxcars, cars that kept tipping over on their back wheels, members disguised as Indians, African savages and Scotsmen on skis, had a separate parade of their own, more disorderly than the main Legion parade. Two days later, as "Chef de Chemin de Fer," the 40 & 8 chose Fred Fraser, chief of the mail and records division of the Veterans' Administration in Washington...
...House, Saxler or one of his KKK brothers seemed to be putting their ideals into practice, probably out of protest to the proposed Black radio speech. Flory crosses, crudely constructed from paper but none-the-less grimly reminiscent of there real thing, floated down through the air of the main Court...
...recipient of a good deal of criticism, both deserved and undeserved, and there is no doubt that many of its interpretations are not entirely pleasing to our Anglo-Saxon ears. Some listeners would prefer more contemporary works--others would not venture beyond Debussey. But in the main, he manages to do an admirable job of pleasing everyone and there are few indeed who do not thoroughly enjoy any of the series of five concerts to which they may subscribe...
...northwest side a dangerous fire hazard has been removed by the building of a fire escape. Formerly both stairways down were in the main part of the building, and people on the top of the retunda were in danger of being out off in case a fire had gotten a good start in the kitchen. Because of the fire escape it has been possible to take out the rear stairway, and in its place steel lockers have been placed for the inmates...