Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weld and University Halls, some 3,000 guests of the University will already be in place, having entered by the gate on Broadway between Robinson Hall and Hunt Hall. The column, marching to music of the Harvard University Band, will pass in front of Widener and turn up the main aisle, occupying seats to the left of the aisle, occupying seats to the left of the aisle, beginning with the front...
...overthrow the Soviet Government-men who have stooped so low that they have lost their human aspect!" A clerk at Judge Ulrich's elbow read rapidly an indictment of the accused so complex that his swift sentences left spectators blurred as to details. Quite clear, though, were the main charges that the 16 prisoners had contrived among themselves at least four separate plots to kill Joseph Stalin, Secretary General of the Communist Party and as such Dictator of Russia. It was announced that the prisoners had all chosen not to be defended by Soviet lawyers but to defend themselves...
...furnished "confidential letters" and "inside information" to those whose ignorance about Washington was matched only by their curiosity concerning Capital affairs. From his office in the National Press Building, James True has of late been operating two obscure enterprises known as James True Associates and America First, Inc., whose main activity is the distribution of inflammatory anti-Semitic literature. Last week this little-known pamphleteer popped into the news when he inadvertently furnished a Leftist weekly with one of its most astounding stories...
...Mary chapel is to be a memorial to Father Burton's mother, Mrs. Caspar Burton of Cincinnati, who long ago gave the land for it. The main unit of the monastery, in Architect Cram's finest medieval style, will be in memory of Father Burton's brother Caspar, who died of War wounds. With this and a cloister under construction, the whole will eventually cost $500,000. But to Boston the most interesting donor to the Cowley Fathers monastery was their late patron ess, a terrifying little woman who gave the $25,000 St. Francis House...
...name, Pacific Mutual was actually mutual (that is, wholly owned by its policyholders) in only one division. In this mutual division, insurance examiners fortnight ago found a surplus of $4,792,000. But the nonparticipating end of the business showed a whopping deficit of $22,350,000. Main reason for the deficiency was that the personal accident & health department had been losing money for years, was more than $23,000,000 in the red. Main reasons for the accident department's showing were low premiums and high monthly benefits in its noncancelable disability policies, under which a man incapacitated...