Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unimpressed, the Delegates approved the main provisions of the McGuire report, pledged A. B. A. support to getting them written into law. Going on to consider individual agencies, the Delegates judged the time unripe for comment on the Wages-&-Hours Administration (though they applauded its work to date), but they recommended three important amendments to NLRA...
...squandered to keep the Government in the hands of one regime. New Dealers defend it as an up-to-date and effective way of letting the people know how their money is spent. Just how much expense and ballyhoo is justifiable in passing out such information is the main point at issue. There is another point: since 1913 there has been a U. S. law forbidding any Federal agency to hire a "publicity expert" without a specific appropriation...
Properly, such human documents should be reviewed by a psychiatrist. No one else could satisfy the reader's main curiosity, namely, what motives of exhibitionism, just grievance or resentment against a male-dominated world prompt the writings of such a book. Madeleine Boyd does a thorough job in messing up the portrait of the elegant husband. But she herself does not come through looking as though she were dressed for church...
...slim-hipped soldier-poet, who first appears as commander of a naval squadron blockading Genoa. He changes sides several times, several times buys and talks his way out of captivity, is dishonored, vindicated, at last makes mincemeat of the Moslems, wins beautiful Gianna. Who fights whom is immaterial-the main thing is that they fight...
...Metcalfe reported that the entire library, including the main Harvard College collection, and the 80 affiliated departmental and graduate school libraries now numbers 3,041,359 volumes and pamphlets. Accessions by gift, purchase and exchange during the year totaled about 80,000 books...