Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michael Mullin's Chowder and Marching Party will hold their annual conclave on the steps of Widener. The Grand Potentate with the little round button on top will be present from New York to add tone to the festivities...
...Franco's Government of His Britannic Majesty's Government's "horror" at civilian losses in Leftist Spain. At Tokyo, British Ambassador Sir Robert L. Craigie objected to "indiscriminate" aerial attacks on Canton. While Laborites in the House of Commons pointedly demanded that Britain do something besides "hold up her hands in horror." Richard Austen Butler, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, outlined a plan to organize a small, neutral, independent, international commission to investigate all bombings...
...Signed up by Promoter Mike Jacobs for the next three years, Armstrong's next match will be with Lou Ambers next month for the lightweight (135 Ib.) championship of the world. If he wins it, as most experts expect, he will be the only fighter ever simultaneously to hold three titles...
Schools, As taxpayers, contributing money to State and local school systems, many Catholics believe that they should get aid for their parochial schools. Many Protestants, however, hold that if Catholics do not choose to put their children in public schools, that is their lookout. In Ohio, where State aid for parochial schools has been fought in the Legislature for five years, religious bitterness has hampered the work...
...killing two sheepherders, they gave it up. They tried cunning, stampeded wild horses into herds of sheep to discourage sheep-grazing on that part of the range. But the sheep kept coming. Coolidge says the legend of quick-shooting cowboys is pure myth: because they believed the law would hold them guilty if there was any violence, they went unarmed, ate dirt, bowed and scraped before arrogant sheepherders...