Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refinements, such as state pensions for the aged, blind, widowed, or otherwise incapacitated, a great increase in the property tax on parcels worth over $5,000, a 50 per cent inheritance tax and a stiffly graduated income tax, the substitution of scrip for money, etc., are incidental to the main project, which Sinclair expects to work out with such rapidity that after two years the historian of his reign will write, "The Governor made a last speech over the radio, saying that he had caused a thorough investigation to be made throughout the State of California, and that the only...
While the British make futile and ineffective pleas for disarmament, the nations continue with vast and elaborate plans for increasing their armies and navies. It is by now apparent that the main result of the current English notes will not be to reduce armaments at all but will merely result in the rearming of Germany. The German reply to the French proposals was a distinct defeat for the French, since all that Berlin had to do was to point out that any French demands for disarmament could hardly be anything but inconsistent as long as France insisted upon maintaining...
...unusually thorny problem. Everything is on the side of the Nazis; it will not be surprising if they are able to brave all the rest of Europe, and set up a Fascist government in Vienna which in everything but name will be merely a sub-station of the main Brown House in Berlin. NEMO...
...Thomas Brookshire, D. D. was pronounced dead of a heart attack and no indications of drowning. The Rev. Brookshire is survived by his widow Catherine Main Brookshire and one son John Decker Brookshire...
...When Brig.-General Cornelius Vanderbilt's news-nosing son "Neely" tried to crash the ex-Kaiser's presence last spring, he was repulsed with the stiff story that he had not been Gazetted two weeks in advance. But life at Doom is terribly sleepy. In the ivied main palace and the outlying smaller palace for smaller princes, the family retires early, lies abed until noon, reading, smoking, dozing. Sometimes they listen irritably to the clop, clop of Wilhelm's ax, making Doom's big daily news. Lately rheumatism has kept Wilhelm abed too, denied...