Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps Herr Schöttle will hold contempt for the views of a Jew. However, I always did have respect for Hitler. He rebuilt a desolate nation out of ashes, but he forgot one thing, THE FOUNDATION...
...majority in both houses of Congress have indicated that they also hold this view. While I am convinced that such a policy of retrenchment under present conditions would have disastrous results, we live in a democracy, and, therefore, I believe that the viewpoint of the majority should promptly be made effective...
...turned down the $15,000, 14-year job of Comptroller General. In 1936 he declined to contest for Josiah Bailey's Senate seat, which he might easily have won, because he likes Joe Bailey. Over his colleagues in Congress, as over his constituents, he has developed a hold based on respect and confidence. Aged 49, he regards John Nance Garner as "a second daddy." For all 14 years his capital residence has been a room in the modest Washington Hotel next door to Mr. Garner's. Lindsay Warren did not consult the White House when he drafted...
Among numerous blasts at this astronomic dream was the report of Economist James Douglas Brown's Advisory Council (TIME, Dec. 26). That council, representing Government, Labor and the Public, recommended that in order to hold down the reserve, Social Security call a temporary halt to rate increases, begin payments of full benefits in 1940 instead of 1942, and extend them to more people. Last week, in a report to the House Ways & Means Committee, Henry Morgenthau said nothing about speeding up payments. But he did approve another suggestion: to give up the idea of "full reserve" and substitute...
...Dobruja to Rumania in 1913 and that some 500,000 Dobrujans are now Rumanian subjects. Bessarabia, to the northeast, with 1,500,000 Ukrainians, Russians and Poles, was absorbed by Rumania from Soviet Russia in 1920. Of Rumania's five neighbors, only two-Yugoslavia and Poland-do not hold grudges against...