Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Addressed a State American Legion convention at Wichita on Labor Day. declared: "I believe we can do much by intelligent legislation to lessen the danger of being drawn into a war with which we have no real concern. But after all the Spirit of America must be our main reliance in staying out of war. . . . We must keep our heads...
...down to cases at Buffalo fortnight ago, one of his lustiest blows was aimed at New Deal taxation. "If the major portion of the Government's income," he orated, "is obtained from indirect and hidden taxes-taxes upon such things as food, clothing, gasoline and cigarets-then the main burden falls upon those of small income...
...Burgos, where General Mola has his headquarters, arrived the Spanish Catholic Party Leader José Maria Gil Robles, one of the main organizers of the Revolution against what he takes to be Marxism in Madrid and Anarchism in Barcelona. After conferring with General Mola he emerged to sound this 100% Catholic keynote: "I am with Spain, and Spain is here...
This desertion by its heir of the main capital of the great mail order empire is partly due to personal reasons - he and his family have become confirmed Philadelphians - and partly to the course of empire. The mail order business is by nature best designed for rural trade, and the great rural regions of the U. S. lie 1) in the Mississippi Valley, 2) in the North Central States (Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin) and 3) in the old South. The growth of cities, the building of roads that took farmers to town, the competition of chain stores, led Sears Roebuck...
...Main feature of yachting's biggest international event has always been the unsporting controversies that precede, accompany and follow it. Main feature of Skipper Sopwith's challenge was the date he proposed for the first race, July 24. The date suits him because his challenger, Endeavour II, built last winter, has been racing all this summer. It does not suit the New York Yacht Club because it leaves little time to tune up an as yet unbuilt defender next spring. First job of the committee which the Club last week empowered to act on the challenge will...