Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Main job of a State university president is to handle his State Legislature. Big, blond, booming Robert Gordon Sproul, 48, an ambitious executive and politician-president of the University of California, who recently turned down a $50,000 bank presidency, gets on well with his. Moreover he runs though not the world's best, the world's biggest university, with 24,000 fulltime students, seven campuses. Minnesota's Guy Stanton Ford, 66, is Sproul's opposite-small, frail, quietly witty, a famed history scholar who favors the theoretical rather than the practical side of politics...
...Siegel side of the insurance question is considered dynamite by the major networks, but last week Prudential and Metropolitan, the biggest two insurance companies in the U. S., were on the big time air with their side of the story. Their main point: the company agent's functions are so ordered that the best interests of the policyholders must be the agent's, too. Prudential began a five-a-week non-insurance dramatic serial over CBS, called When a Girl Marries, which contents itself with simple commercial testaments to the agent's integrity...
...Lincoln, for if it does, history may have to take a back seat. It is as if Darryl F. Zanuck had signed Mr. Lincoln to play in a swift, humorous, bathetic little piece of last century fiction. The result is an ingenuous jumble of history and fancy, its main theme being the story of how young Lawyer Lincoln, at 30, won his famous murder case with the help of the moon and a farmer's almanac, a trial that actually took place when Lincoln was nearing...
Corporal Hino's main point: war is uncomfortable. Even a dictatorship cannot keep this cold and muddy fact a secret, with 10,000 soldiers writing home every week. Smart Japanese know it is better to have the fact heroically stated by a soldier who is doing his bit, especially when he also reports his comrades begging their officers to forgive them for getting wounded, dying with a shout of "May our Emperor live a thousand years!" They may do these things better in Moscow and Berlin, but Japan is catching up with the West...
...Main obstacle to these amendments is the undying Townsend Plan. Last week smart Bob Doughton and his committee figured out a way to silence Townsendites for this session, hotspot some 60 Republican Congressmen (including Minority Leader Joe Martin of Massachusetts) who traded intimations of support for Townsend votes last year. Without reading the latest Townsend Bill, Doughton & Co. got the House Rules Committee to push it onto the floor this week, ban all amendments and force a roll-call vote. "I think you fellows just took this monkey off your backs," joshed Rulesman Martin Dies of Texas. Massachusetts' Republican...