Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweltering evening, the shouts from the union hall on Kansas City's Main Street could be heard almost a block away. There was a crash of glass, and some bodies hurtled out onto the tile roof. One man dropped to the lawn, then dashed back upstairs to rejoin the fighting. Congressmen Leonard Irving, who is also president and business agent of Kansas City's Hod Carriers' Building and Common Laborers' Union (A.F.L.), was talking things over with his rank & file...
...government went into action within minutes after the shooting. Armed cops were concentrated at the Central Police Station on Sixth Avenue, the city's main street. The guard at the governmental palace broke out machine guns, barred the doors. Telephone service was suspended, and the air force sent up patrols...
...tuition apiece for the six-week summer session; the teachers, many of whom play for northern symphony orchestras, got their expenses only. At week's end, the hard work paid off in a lively concert by the yo-piece student-teacher band before a crowd of 1,200. Main event of the evening: Grieg's Concerto in A Minor, with Guest Pianist Eugene List, the ex-G.I. who played for Truman and Stalin at Potsdam, as soloist...
...Earl of Warwick's fat parcel of New World land known as Connecticut turned out to be fatter than anyone suspected back in 1630. The Earl's Crown charter spoke with magnificent vagueness of a strip 40 leagues wide extending "throughout all the main lands . . . from the western [Atlantic] ocean to the South Seas [the Pacific]. A century and a half later, with a sound respect for geography and the realities of U.S. politics, Connecticut bowed to congressional insistence and ceded her western claims, with one exception. The exception was the Western Reserve, a 120-mile strip bordering...
...Hands. In North Little Rock, Ark., police arrested N. B. Beaugard for changing his shirt while driving through the city's main street in a rainstorm at 75 m.p.h...