Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican National Convention, whammed with his gavel to quiet the vast babble that was filling the flag-hung Chicago Stadium. He had "keynoted" the convention the day before in loud, oldtime partisan style (TIME, June 20). Now in order were several more perfunctory pieces of business before the main (and equally perfunctory) acts of the meeting could be performed...
...Army wishes," declared General Moreno, "to return to its usual duties, silently preparing for the defense of the nation. It rose because it could not re main unmoved in the face of bold citizens who, forgetting patriotism, were exploiting Communistic ideas that were an kisult to the national flag...
...disguise his most obvious disqualifications. They find a campaign manager named Hal Blake (Warren William ) lodged in an alimony jail. "Hicks from the sticks" is the slogan which Blake invents; he approves when Hicks replies to reporters' questions by saying, "Yes&$151;and again, no." The main difficulty in electing Hicks is furnished by Blake's divorced wife. Bribed to do so by the opposition, she inveigles Hicks into a mountain cabin and wins his clothes at cards. Blake & associates arrive in time to prevent Candidate Hicks from being publicly shamed by this crucial buffoonery. Adapted by Courtenay...
Authorities of Brockton, Quincy and Lowell, Mass, refused entry to Walter L. Main's circus unless it eliminated from its program a sideshow in which Negro William Allen told how he discovered the body of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Circusman Main withdrew Negro Allen following his New Bedford debut, which aroused slight interest...
...main concerns of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America is a Commission on Race Relations. Last week this body published its tenth annual report, "The Tenth Mile Toward Interracial Peace." Concerned with all racial minorities but chiefly with Negroes, the Commission has this to report...