Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politician was ruddy, chubby Charles A. Harnett, since 1924 State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. Tammanyite who introduced a song to celebrate the return from Europe of discredited ex-Mayor James J. Walker. Commissioner Harnett has managed to hold his $10,000 job through Tammany's ups & downs, has been well and favorably known to New York's 3,500,000 licensed drivers...
Although Democrats still hold a handsome 263 out of 435 Representatives, 69 out of 96 Senators, 30 out of 48 Governors, the election clearly marked the reversal of a six-year political trend and political trends once started often go farther than anyone expects...
...stop just short of totalitarianism of either Left or Right, preserve in economics a "Liberal Regime" as he called it on the radio. No. 1 Trade Union Boss Leon Jouhaux promptly indicated a feeling that such measures probably are today the sole means of making France strong enough to hold her ground in Europe. Cried Boss Jouhaux: "We must take steps at least as bold as those which have been taken by President Roosevelt. . . . Organized labor in France is not of course willing to pay all the costs and make all the sacrifices." This was not asked of Labor...
...Though they constitute one-third of the population, Jews hold less than 5% of the public jobs...
...stockmarket. Truth is at times as strange as the cinema. He studied market trends, invested in carefully selected securities so wisely that in 1933 he was able to give President Wilbur securities then worth $367,000. Still short of his goal, Dr. Cubberley asked the University to hold his investments until earnings raised the total...