Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military was not yet through. It "gassed" small scattered camps in the vicinity of the Capitol, shoved out their occupants, left smoking ruins behind. By 9 p. m. the troopers had advanced to the Anacostia bridge, beyond which on the mudflats lay Bonus City, the B. E. F.'s main encampment. The camp commander rushed out waving a white shirt for a truce, asked for time to evacuate the several hundred women and children. He got an hour's grace...
...Lord's command. The case of the beard defenders was that, while the shaving order implied the existence of Ezekiel's pre-shave beard, it did not deny the probability of a new post-shave beard. Sculptor Lawrie, who is doing the sculptural work for the main entrance of Rockefeller Center's Radio Corporation building, is 54 but beardless. It was his contention last week that all prophets have beards...
...Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who expressed these sentiments when he revived the Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, had been in Los Angeles last week he would have seen them inscribed in huge letters on the inner wall of the main gateway of Los Angeles Olympic Stadium. He would have seen also a crowd of 105,000 flowing in orderly fashion into a stadium which contained 30 miles of seats and cost $1,700,000. A lover of the grandiloquent, the ceremonious. Baron de Coubertin would have been charmed by the gay, prodigious pageant of band-music, homing-pigeons, hymns...
...trumpeters on a turret above the stadium blew a loud salute. Outside the stadium, a field gun went off ten times. From an urn over the main gate of the stadium there was a burst of flame, pale in the bright afternoon, from the Olympic torch that will burn for 16 days...
Gorton-Pew calls itself the world's largest fish producing organization although its assets of $2,090,000 are topped by the $6,154,000 assets of Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co. whose main plant is at Groton, Conn. Its Man at the Wheel (portrait of an elderly fisherman guiding a schooner through a heavy sea) is famed among trademarks. And its president is known to the industry as a good man to have at any wheel. He is Thomas James Carroll, 64, whose life has been close to that of Gloucester and its fishermen. His father, an Irish...