Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that same West which was largely responsible for his nomination Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned last week for a harvest of discontented votes. Beyond the Mississippi lay his main chance of being elected the next President...
...Dutch home port, was paralyzed by a seamen's strike. As the 21-year-old Rotterdam pushed her high prow past England's Bishop Rock, Rotterdam's strikers sent wireless messages to Rotterdam's crew. They were never delivered. Apparently acting under orders from the main office, Captain Van Dulken privately told his passengers that they would have to disembark either at Boulogne or Southampton. The news was quietly received by all but the returning athletes who were looking forward to a Jimmy Walker wel come at the quayside...
...Henry, Patrick Anson, Timothy Michael. After many a speech, U. S. C.'s President von Kleinsmid accepted the keys to the great bronze doors of the Library, largest yet to be cast in the West. Then the visitors inspected coppered, acoustic-plastered ceilings and rubber-tiled floors; the main reading room, 131 ft. by 48 ft., with stained glass windows; the Treasure Room for rare books, wherein are murals depicting the history of printing, and "Ned" Doheny's bust...
Typical of "Modern Bolshevism" is Mayor Bulganin's recent appointment of Architect Shchusev as "Commandant of Tverskaja" (Moscow's main street). Under the Commandant's direction all buildings will be painted, starting at one end of the street and working down to the other. Not the occupants of the buildings but Street Commandant Shchusev will decide what color each building shall be painted, which shall be torn down, which repaired-all by the Municipality...
...seems very pleasant. The cheerful natives, amazingly handsome, dressed for hot weather, have all the paraphernalia of civilization except machines. They spend the morning marketing, chatting, weaving, carving statues, attaching gold leaf to bolts of cloth, swimming, raising rice, flying kites with prodigious, sarcastic tails. Main event of a high-grade Bali day is a cremation, preceded by dances, bull races, prayers. Corpses of dead Balinese are placed in ornamental towers mounted on floats to be carried about the island. After a cremation, the ashes are scattered...