Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troops were called out was over, and almost all of them had been sent home. This kind of law Governor McNutt maintained for at least two years in Sullivan County, Ind. and for some six to eight months in Terre Haute. Under this, a major of militia had power superior to all local authorities and courts; he could and did order men to be held for various alleged offenses, including street corner speaking, subject, not to civil law, but to a military court...
From Hollywood, Dr. Buchman journeyed to Del Monte, opened a "World Assembly" for MRA, attended by 2,000 delegates from 25 nations. Said he: "We must possess some superior quality, a quality of living that rises above resentment, jealousy, greed and points of view, because all these may keep us from a maximum message. . . . We need the same characteristics that distinguish a great general-the plus of character, the plus that will change the world...
...should not be regarded more seriously as a candidate than any of a dozen other charming young men. What their friends in the "sticks" might try to do for them, said he, was beyond their control. Thus, for the moment, was Candidate McNutt relegated to the shadow of his superior, and the press thwacked one more time...
Yokel Boy (music & lyrics by Lew Brown, Charlie Tobias, Sam H. Stept; produced by Lew Brown). Yokel Boy turns loose a lot of lively entertainers and a superior chorus strung along on the feeblest of books...
Sister Clodagh, the Superior, found no trouble in keeping herself and the other four nuns busy. Anxious to help, the general bribed the suspicious natives to visit school and dispensary. His peacock of an heir, 17-year-old General Dilip Rai, came to special lessons redolent with perfume. Soon the nuns found their work too absorbing. Sister Phillippa's request for transfer, because she had put her garden before her religious life, gave the first warning. But it took the twin tragedy of death in convent and village before Sister Clodagh admitted her mistake, asked for recall...