Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Republican Chairman John Hamilton. His name: John Janson. He was speaking last week in the small ballroom of Washington's famed Willard Hotel, competing in the finals of a national oratorical contest for which Mr. Hamilton's committee had put up $15,000 in regional and main prizes. Young Orator Janson's platform manner was prodigiously polished for a junior high school freshman. His words had an authentic Republican ring...
...there since early August. By week's end the Generalissimo had been at least half successful. The Rightists had reached the Ebro River bank along an eight-mile stretch formerly held by their enemy and the Leftist holdings had been reduced to a tiny circle around the main bridgehead at Mora de Ebro...
Certain that China's main air base at Nanchang, 400 miles north of Canton, will soon fall, a new air station has been set up in interior Yunnan Province, and there last week Chinese recruits, coached by adventurous U. S. fliers, were busy learning the controls of recently arrived Russian fighting planes...
Trustee Morgan and his colleagues have been more conspicuously successful in their financial management of Cooper Union than it has been as an educational institution. The institution's main income comes from the site of the Chrysler Building in Manhattan, donated to the school by the Coopers. Recently Cooper Union won a suit against New York City for tax exemption on the site and building, acquired $2,500,000 in cash (back taxes it had paid) and more than $400,000 a year in additional income...
...hundred years ago, Charlemagne's dream was realized by Ludwig I of Bavaria, who joined the Rhine's branch, the Main, with the Danube. It was Germany's first canal of any consequence, a 107-mile stretch between Bamberg and Kelheim...