Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only at the luncheon given us at the President's home at Hyde Park was liquor not served. I expect it could have been had there if asked for. In this gathering in the main were high-class citizens, but none could eliminate or keep out all the leeches when swarms from outside were trying to climb in. 'Tis so at all high-life functions...
...week's main NABusiness at Atlantic City was to approve a code, drawn up under Neville Miller's supervision, designed to minimize the possibility of collision between broadcasters and FCC at several other danger points...
...main reason I'm not running is simply because I've only had a four-year crack at this Chronicle job from topside, and being a fathead I think I need a couple of more years anyhow. The dope is I'm sort of a squirt, a very egotistical one-so egotistical that I think I'm smart enough to know I haven't done the job with a newspaper yet. Maybe I'll wait and run for President...
...Main symptom of Germany's bad condition is the increase of disease since 1933, as shown in the following table (the figures for 1938 cover only Germany proper, not territorial acquisitions...
...values in the history of the inflating utility industry*-SEC concurred. Before the year was out United made still another obeisance to Bill Douglas and SEC: it registered as a holding company. In doing so President George Howard announced that United intended to reduce its holdings in its four main holding company investments (eventually to less than 10% of each) that it "has determined to continue as an investment company and. as opportunity permits, to diversify its portfolio and participate in the financing and underwriting of new capital issues in the public utility and other fields." As a first step...