Word: maw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most realistic view of the Burmese situation was expressed by former Japanese Puppet Premier Ba Maw (Ph.D., Cambridge). Said he, in his best Cambridge drawl: "Just because America and Britain make their spiritual home in the middle of the road is no reason to expect Burma to stay there. The Japanese spirit completely conquered these people. It's the man with the gun who will win out here...
...local, state and federal employees listed, most were minor functionaries. Three employees of the Agriculture Department were listed; none was close to grain-purchasing activities in Washington. There were a few dozen Army and Navy officers, none well known. Utah's bald, Democratic Governor Herbert B. Maw was in the market with 5,000 bushels of wheat...
...turn at the Union's more or less palatable offerings are hardly anything new. During their first few weeks in the Yard, eagerness, hunger, sheer boredom, or some more nebulous force usually impels Freshmen Union-ward just at the hour when the great dining hall first opens its maw. A short period of acclimation, as a rule, yields wisdom of a sort and customers begin to appear in a regular flow from opening to closing hour. But this year with the orientation past, the lines remain...
...Maw MacBean (Selena Royle) is glad to have Van around, and young Lissy (Janet Leigh) makes eyes enough for a whole county's quota of farmers' daughters. Gill MacBean (Thomas Mitchell) is less easily won over by the stranger. The Civil War has just been fought, and feeling still runs high. Barns are being burned by masked riders; Yankees and ex-Rebels still won't help each other out with the crops, or even keep their tempers at a party. Old Man MacBean, a 100% Rebel, has a burning question: Are the stranger's britches blue...
Rebels. Mormonism, with 74% of Utah's citizens, is still the greatest influence in the state's politics. Utah's two Congressmen and both its Senators are Mormons, and so is Governor Herbert B. Maw. Mormon politicians do not invariably follow the hierarchy. Neither the Governor nor Democratic Senator Elbert Thomas are "church candidates" in the sense that they represent the church's ultra-conservative policies on such matters as labor and foreign policy. Mormon voters have a mind of their own, too. Despite the church's opposition they gave Roosevelt a majority four times...