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...Iowa) for a year, then began to teach. She does not smoke or drink. Weekends she has dates with a young Iowa City storekeeper. Because she likes to be independent she does not expect to marry for a while. She keeps up with developments in her profession by reading Midland Teacher, organ of the State Teachers' Association. She also likes to read fiction, recently read Drums Along the Mohawk and Grapes of Wrath. She thought Grapes of Wrath "too frank...
...Bank of England has only one M.P.-Sir Alan Anderson-among its directors, but Sir Alan is also a director of railroads and ship lines that have other M.P.s on their directorates. Typical of Parliamentary financiers is Lieut. Colonel Glyn Keith Murray Mason, who is a director of the Midland Bank (biggest in England) and vice chairman of powerful Guardian Assurance Co., Ltd. When family backgrounds are considered, the financial power of Tory M.P.s looks towering. Lord Wimborne, a director of Barclays Bank until 1939 and once a Tory M.P. himself, has two brothers, a son, and a nephew...
...morning last week two squadrons of heavy Blenheim and Wellington bombers soared out of Midland mists and headed for France. Fully loaded, cruising at 6,000 feet under sealed orders, they crossed the Channel to Le Havre, turned due south. At nine o'clock eight more squadrons of medium Hampden and Battle bombers left England to touch the French coast near the mouth of the Somme, pass west of Paris. At eleven two more squadrons of heavy bombers followed the path of the first. By noon some 150 English warplanes, carrying 400 men, were hovering over France; heavy bombers...
...Northeast, North, Northwest, Northmidland, Midland, Eastern, Southern, Southeastern, Southwestern, Wales, Scotland, London...
Although their desire to annoy the skinflint president of the St. Louis Midland Railroad is altruistic, Jesse and his brother Frank (Henry Fonda) rob his trains with ingratiating gusto. No mollycoddle, Jesse James excels modern cinema gangsters in horseback riding, marksmanship and chivalry. He treats his gun-moll (Nancy Kelly) with devotion, and is shot by a traitor while fondly regarding a hand-embroidered wall motto that says God Bless Our Home...