Word: paines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Donkeys. Simpler half of California's political pandemonium was the Democratic. Upton Sinclair, who in 1934 ran away with the Democratic nomination for Governor, much to the pain of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, was almost erased from the picture by EPIC's defeat in the election. Nevertheless, he left behind him an organization headed by his campaign assistant, State Senator Culbert L. Olson, who remained as Democratic State Central Committee Chairman. Senator McAdoo, who regards California as his political proconsulate, did not choose to honor State Chairman Olson with more than the scantest patronage. When Mr. Olson threatened...
Cavalcade's Pain...
...know what it is like fo be written about in TIME [Feb. 24]. It's bracing, despite the pain at the seat of the pants...
...England Dr. Edward Arnold Carmichael of London conducted volumetric experiments which convinced him that when a person hears a loud, sudden noise his arms and legs shrink in size. Reason: noise, like cold, pain, fright or excitement, releases nerve impulses which contract the capillaries, diminish their blood content...
...Southwest's Penitentes number around 5,000, are supposedly an outgrowth of the Third Order of St. Francis whose Catholicism degenerated into a tortured identification of themselves with Christ through pain and penance. The Mother Church deplores the Penitentes, has been able to do little about them. Secretive, savage toward meddling outsiders, the blood brothers practiced their rites for hundreds of years without molestation. When near Albuquerque last month a writer named Carl Taylor was murdered by his house boy, it was suggested that the killing was in retribution for an article written by Taylor on the Penitentes...