Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main criticism by the opposition is supported with two lesser objections. In the first place, with fine Republican indignation they demand the immediate enactment of the far-reaching reforms for the elimination of politics from W.P. A. administration recommended by the Shepherd Committee. The second measure for which the opposition is fighting is the abandonment of lump sum appropriations in favor of appropriations itemized by Congress for expenditure on stipulated projects. Even if there is a measure of justice in each of these criticisms, their adoption in the middle of a fiscal year would hardly be justified. As Lincoln once...
...main proposals of the Teachers' Union Committee on appointment and tenure are as follows...
...episodic novel that sprawls all over the place (Pennsylvania, Michigan, South Dakota, New York, Cuba), Rope of Gold is equally prodigal with characters. The four main ones are an intellectual farm organizer and his wife; a rising automobile manufacturer; a union organizer in the automobile factory. The characters and the events are both much like those to be found in hackneyed left-wing novels. But Author Herbst is no propagandist; there are no revolutions around the corner; her characters move under their own power; their crises occur inside themselves instead of on picket lines...
...publishers' readers "made bold to class this unusual first novel with The Bridge of San Luis Rey." A bold blurb, it is something less than accurate. The main aptness of the comparison is that Author Myers' story also collapses, too lightly constructed to support its load of symbolism...
Twenty preliminary bouts will be held today in the boxing room. The finals tomorrow will be on the main floor of the gymnasium in order to accommodate the large crowd expected to attend...