Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Veteran George Hanna heads a good outfield from his left field pasture, and Will Pitz and Gus Broberg hold down the other posts. Broberg's advance notices in baseball are just about as good as they were in basketball, but his hitting is still an unknown quantity...
...Within the next few days," said Senator Byrnes, the State Department would open negotiations for barter trade with Great Britain, Holland, and Belgium, swapping raw materials such as U. S. surplus cotton (TIME, April 10) to lay in "emergency stocks" of strategic materials (rubber, tin) in which those nations hold the world monopoly...
Last man to hold and deserve this emeritus distinction was Elihu Root, who was Secretary of War under McKinley and Roosevelt I, then the latter's Secretary of State and died (aged 91) in 1937. Now, as in no other period of U. S. history, there is a dearth of Elders. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's job disqualifies him. Ex-President Herbert Hoover remains too closely identified with his wing of the Republican Party to seem Olympian when he sounds off. His Cabinet as a whole are out of public sight and mind...
...House of Commons Opposition members emphatically wanted to know: 1) what Lord Stanhope's revelations meant; 2) how the Government could justify such a censorship of the press. Deputy Labor Leader Arthur Greenwood pointedly asked Mr. Chamberlain if he thought Lord Stanhope was a "fit person to hold an important office...
...letter to Ernest J. Simmons '25, assistant professor of English and C.U.U.T. president, Green wrote, "Be assured of the full support and assistance of the A.F. of L. I express the hope that you may hold a most successful and satisfactory conference...