Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public unless checked by an independent inspection. Senator Davis had friends, he said, who would help him finance such an inspection. None of them had any private utility connection, he said, nor had Accountant Conick, his choice for the job. Mr. Conick is a checker-upper whose firm (Main & Co.) has often been called in to clean up after Pennsylvania politicians, whose findings drove from office Pittsburgh's rapacious mayor, the late Charles H. Kline...
...turned out to be his great piece of fortune. For in 1933 Franklin Roosevelt's Economy Act decreed a cut in veterans' benefits, and temperate Louis Johnson saved the President from insult when he appeared at the Legion convention in Chicago. In 1936, still alive to the main chance, Louis Johnson organized the Veterans' Division of the Democratic National Committee, got his reward within the twelvemonth...
...last week: "If you could get together all those people who think they are Supermen and who really are not, it is my firm belief that they could work out a plan for peace. Peace can be planned in just the same way as an attack against cancer. My main proposal is that there should be a World Peace Conference...
Meanwhile, the most graphic dispatch of the week from a very meagrely reported war came from the province of Hopeh, a fertile plain lying almost entirely north of the Yellow River, 550 miles from the main theatre of operations...
...Ireland without St. Patrick is unthinkable," declares Gogarty. "Every person in our island shares something of the personality of that steadfast and enduring man. . . ." But this is only Gogarty's briefly stated conclusion. The main content of his tribute to the great Irish epic is an account of his pilgrimage in the legendary footsteps of the Saint. He investigated a half-dozen birthplaces, made a pilgrimage up St. Patrick's mountain in Connemara, flew over Ulster in a plane piloted by his good friend, the Marquess of Londonderry, leafed through all the ancient and modern biographies...