Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Vic Donahey's majority (5 Democrats, 1 Republican) : "the main purposes of the TVA act have been honestly and efficiently performed . . . [Dr. Morgan's charges] are without foundation, not supported by evidence, and made without due consideration of the facts...
Whether or not surrender was the best means of salvation, it was the better part of valor. In the south, through Córdoba and Toledo, the Franco main armies were reported advancing, meeting with no resistance. At Valencia it was reported that Loyalist troops had been ordered to withdraw without risking further bloodshed. All that seemed to remain was Franco's own triumphal entry into Madrid and the mopping up of the south, a procedure that in Catelonia required only a few weeks following the collapse of Barcelona...
...Main breeders of U. S. harlotry (and main subject of Designs in Scarlet) are Dine & Dance joints, liquor, tourist camps, obscenity peddlers. Author Cooper does not, however, neglect organized brothels nor the many ramifications of his subject-camp followers of the WPA, sex degeneracy, and worse. As in his previous crime writings (Here's To Crime, Ten Thousand Public Enemies), he is a powerful and even petrifying publicist. But he is, as ever, a highly confusing sociologist. Formerly Author Cooper denounced Prohibition as a main root of U. S. crime. But U. S. prostitution, which he considers worse than...
...influence of the outer world of science and of current political happenings on Einstein his biographer skilfully handles, intermingling interesting data and anecdotes with the main thread of his narrative. However, in the case of the great man's exile from his homeland, Mr. Garbedian goes too far in his digressions. His rather long description of Hitler's rise to power makes the book lose in effectiveness in assuming the aspect of a general history...
...main objective of the Congress is the consideration by as large a number of students as possible of the legislation pending in the present session of Congress. Major issues now up in Congress will be discussed in eight Committees based on the committees in the National Congress, including education, social security, relief, civil liberties, Wagner Act, health, agriculture, and foreign policy...