Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime points on which they were, in the main, agreed: 1) WTork relief in some form should be devised as a substitute for the outright dole. 2) Substantial Government spending must continue to provide enough "reflation" to keep business from laying off more employes. 3) Al- though many billions might be bandied about in headline talk, actual expenditures must not be fantastic. 4) Something effective must be done to put the construction industry back on its feet, thereby re-employing some...
...foreigner in the lot. . . . These dykes of ours were many of them 140 feet broad at the base and 30 feet broad at the top and they were 30 to 50 feet high. . . . At one time we had 1,400,000 of people working on the main river dykes. The amount of dirt used would put a dyke around the earth at the equator two metres thick and two metres high...
...banquet was under the direction of Malcolm Soymour '35, who is retiring as manager. Donald F. Pitcher '33, former manager, acted as toastmaster. The main speaker and guest of honor was Leonard F. Hubbard '31, another former manager...
...Communist International, a militant organization founded at Moscow in 1919, committed itself to the propagation of revolution similar to that engineered in Russia. Dr. Fainsod emphasized that it resulted from the weakness of the Second International. He stated that its three main purposes were to consolidate the world revolution, to stop the Allies from sending armies into Russia, and to meet the challenge of the Berne Conference in Switzerland, which Lenin thought was reviving the idea of the Second International...
Through last week 1,000 men, women &children- nearly half the population of Geneseo-trooped down Main Street past the Normal Grill and Ulmer's drug store to the corner of Bank Street, then up a narrow flight of stairs to Publisher Sanders' tiny office. A Boy Scout was first in line. A 78-year-old town character named Pliny B. Seymour had himself fingerprinted "in case my memory should fail or something." A couple from the cannery brought their four-month-old daughter. The whole Rotary Club, including Representative Wadsworth & Son James Jeremiah ("Jerry") who sits...