Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring (and after a talk with Franklin Roosevelt), House & Senate conferees on the Army's pending $366,250,000 rearmament authorization bill dropped an amendment tacked on by Majority Leader Barkley. The Army opposed it and Labor wanted it because it would have kept any national defense contract from being awarded any bidder who refused to bargain with his workers collectively. Although friendly Senators offered to limit its effects to firms actually convicted of violating the Wagner Act, the War Department and House committeemen would have none...
...send all these facts and factors over the dam. The people who own most in the world are supposed to know a good deal about what goes on in it. Obviously Herr Hitler caught them napping, for in Berne, Amsterdam, London, New York, markets fell last week and kept falling as big investors hastily unloaded in something very like a panic. If they had not known what Chancellor Hitler was going to do last week until he actually did it, how could they tell what he was going to do next...
...only magazine mother would let him read was the Yot Companion, which Willie considered "namby-pamby." Willie's devoted uncle, childless Griffith Ogden Ellis, thought up the more virile American Boy and began editing it in Detroit in 1899. Editor Ellis printed red-blooded features and fiction,* kept editing his magazine for a schoolboy Willie while Willie grew to manhood. The War killed Willie Sprague...
...plan provides that the British would pay their debt in tin from South Africa, chromium from Rhodesia, tungsten and antimony from China and British Burma, and other materials. They would be kept in a government stock pile on reserve for emergency...
...would like to see a great many smaller colleges all over the country instead of a few big educational factories such as Harvard has become," he said. "But perhaps Harvard has kept a good deal of the old New England tradition anyhow...