Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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At this point the argument, like most discussion on wages and prices, became entangled in two-way semantic trouble. One difficulty: many labor men do not understand the difference between money wages and real wages, will jump at a small money-wage increase even though they would enjoy greater buying...
His friends have claimed that when his anger really towers, he looks eight feet tall. Catalogues have been compiled of the things that touch him off: little boys who run outboard motors; wet boots that will not pull off easily; billboard advertising; Dorothy Thompson; intruders during working hours; cooks who...
Maine Boy. Absence of fear in the face of hard facts comes naturally to Novelist Roberts-he comes from Maine. Even before there were 13 colonies, Boston theocrats found out that the rest of the country might or might not go as Maine goes, but Maine would keep right on...
Grandmother Tibbets' stories had been swirling around his head all those years. Moreover, he had read Schoolmaster-Postmaster Charles Bradbury's History of Kennebunkport, was determined to write a novel about the Louisburg expedition. He was in one of his rages because he had collected so much research...
For Oliver Wiswell he dictated 2,500,000 words. They were taken down by his secretary-niece, dark-eyed Marjorie Mosser. Niece Mosser looks like the portrait of Grandmother Tibbets that hangs in the Rocky Pasture living room. When she came to work for him, Roberts warned her, "Before I...