Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were not anxious to have slum children on their properties. A national advisory association for taxpayers has urged its members: "Think of the dangers-dirt, disease, theft, vandalism, immorality and strife!" But Minister of Health Walter E. Elliot last week announced that Britain's countryfolk had already offered keep and shelter for more than 1,000,000 city children and their mothers, left no doubt that the Government would use compulsion if necessary to make every country dweller do his share...
...editorial director of his own newspapers, and last year his salary from the Hearst Consolidated papers was cut from $500,000 to $100,000. No longer ruler of the empire he built, Hearst has only two desires concerning it: 1) to have some of it survive him; 2) to keep his job. Nearing 76, the man who was the most spectacular publisher and spendthrift of his time wants to die a newspaperman...
...almost everything else Hearst owns are controlled by American Newspapers Inc., top holding company of the bewildering Hearst corporate hierarchy. Mr. Hearst owns 95% of its common stock, but Judge Shearn is his sole voting trustee. As trustee he has irrevocable control over all Hearst enterprises-provided he can keep the Consolidated preferred stockholders happy-until 1947, when Hearst will be 84. Nobody, not even Hearst, knows if Hearst will live that long, and so the trusteeship is a race against death, when the Government may demand up to 20% in inheritance taxes and creditors can no longer be stalled...
...decade he became more powerful, lost his fervor for reform. He would embrace any policy to enhance his prestige, but his prestige slowly waned. He was bitterly disappointed when his efforts to keep the U. S. from siding with the Allies proved unpopular with the public...
...Union or provisions by the University have been made to boost the retirement income of low-wage employees. Suzie's case is therefore far more desperate than Jenny's. Obviously Suzie can not take much more out of her present wages to contribute to the Pension Plan and still keep her financial nose above water. Yet it stands to reason that she should receive something near the $35 income which is guaranteed to waitresses outside educational institutions and who are legally included in the Government's Social Security Program. Hence the University should step in and make a concerted effort...