Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madrid's siege-front 3,000 Rightists, bottled up amid the wreckage of University City, were in bad shape. With little or no drinking water, crouching in shell holes, they waited day after day for General Franco's main body on the other side of the Manzanares River to come to their aid. General José Miaja, Leftist commander in central Spain, by loudspeakers ordered the trapped Rightists to surrender or be annihilated. They received the ultimatum with grim defiance, and by week's end were still holding their ground, besieged within a siege...
...lost eleven fishing boats near Fusan, bearing 70 fishermen. At Shingishu, Korea, 200 houses were washed away by floods. At Nagano, 20 persons were blown to bits by a fireworks explosion. Many mountain villages were wiped out by forest-fires between Kobe and Shimonoseki on the Empire's main island. A cyclone howled through the town of Fukui, unroofed houses, wrecked communications. At Nagoya, a despondent Japanese supplemented the work of the elements by throwing himself under a freight train. He was killed, the locomotive and 16 cars were wrecked, traffic from Tokyo to Shimonoseki stood still...
FORTY YEARS on MAIN STREET-William Allen White-Farrar & Rinehart...
...McKinley-Bryan campaign, offered its author his pick of a job; big city dailies did the same. Editor White turned down both offers, but did not drop out of sight. From then on he was No. 1 U. S. country newspaper editor and prairie philosopher. Forty Years on Main Street is a collection of his editorials, grouped by subject, covering the best of his output. The result is an interesting bit of Americana combining a Main Street diary, a graph of the devious political path of a Progressive of Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" Class...
...your own country and show them something new. I say, "So I've heard" it's like this. But by now I wager it's a town on a mountain top with an Otis escalator going up, a Grand Hotel on the highest peak, the American Express on Main Street and Haig and Haig on every other bill board. And you'll meet an Oxford student at every bar, a Harvard man in every cinema and an American no matter where you are. And sometimes you're awfully glad...