Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maritime Commission's Emory Scott Land was still speaking when the S.S. Patrick Henry started down the ways in Baltimore. Surprised Mrs. Henry Agard Wallace just managed to whack the prow with a bottle before the ship was out of reach. One explanation offered: Maryland's rambling Senator George Radcliffe had talked so long he threw the schedule out of whack...
...years N.B.A. have-nots have been sniping at Mike Jacobs. Last year they persuaded Maryland Representative Ambrose J. Kennedy to introduce into Congress a bill investigating Jacobs' boxing monopoly. The bill bogged down. So, in all likelihood, will the "war to the finish." No one can deny that Tsar Jacobs, shrewd and well-heeled, has cornered the market on rising prizefighters. But he has also kept (as boxing cleanliness goes) a clean nose...
...rate of 10,300 per month. To run this up to 15,000 it is expanding an experiment in small-town newspaper advertising for recruits. Test advertisements in Missouri, Iowa, Indiana doubled the monthly enlistment rate in those States, will soon appear in 13 more States (Nebraska, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee). But the basic appeal is still the same: see the world...
...Vice President had been casting about for an able, hard-boiled New Deal administrator. Last week he paid a visit to the bedside of 41-year-old Surplus Marketing Administrator Milo Perkins, now recuperating in his Maryland home from a serious abdominal operation. Friends of the Vice President said he had found...
They had begun to murmur when the State took away their plain little red schoolhouses, gave them public schools. But they did not move away, like their Amish cousins, who went to Maryland. They muttered louder when draft officials sent their pacifist young men to camps for conscientious objectors. But when AAA sent its agents in and told them how much wheat they could grow on their fertile acres, the Mennonites decided they had stood enough. They held a meeting, agreed to emigrate to the free frontier soil of Paraguay...