Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barreled guns and searchlights with independent generators. Large railroad station signs, a give-away to low-flying raiders, have been removed. Every Frenchman in Paris has his gas mask, and he is subject to fine if he uses its metal container to carry his fishing tackle. Seven of the main bridges leading across the Seine are being doubled and tripled in width to facilitate rapid evacuation. All Parisians whose work does not compel them to stay must leave the city for assigned villages when war breaks out. To avoid being billeted in barns the wise and wealthy have leased comfortable...
...page book that analyzes the tangled family, social, economic and political relationships of Government supporters in the House of Commons. Called Tory M.P., believed the work of several contributors who write under the common pseudonym of "Simon Haxey, " it is an unobtrusive piece of political dynamite, abundantly proves its main point-that people like Lord Balniel are not exceptional among Conservative* members...
Last week he was named by the Federal Grand Jury as one of the wily five Dink Stovers. As co-owner of both the Roosevelt and Bienville hotels, president of the Board of Docks (main employment centre of New Orleans), commissioner of police and fire, president of the Port of New Orleans, and most important, as one of the triumvirate (with Leche and dark, toughly shrewd Mayor Robert Maestri of New Orleans) which took control of the racy Long machine when the Kingfish died, Weiss was apparently beyond reach. He had won a victory over the Government in 1936 when...
Proud of the Sonovox, he does not regard it as a main-line achievement. Said he: "I'm a writer by trade. If I haven't got a writing job, fine-I'll fool around with this thing. But it's writing I want...
...days later, Groesbeck moved again, this time solidifying his relations with SEChairman Jerome Frank. He announced he would simplify the structure of Bond & Share's National Power & Light. Meeting one of SEC's main objections (the needless ramifications of utility finance), he announced dissolution of National's "intermediate holding company," $332,000,000 Lehigh Power Securities. Henceforth, National will have direct control of Lehigh's Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., which supplies electricity to 700 Pennsylvania communities...