Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week viceregal Mr. Knox informed the League that the Saar is "beyond control" by any means at his disposal. He is able to maintain only nominal control, he hinted, because of his right to call in French troops and the fear of Germany that he may do so. If the plebiscite is to be held on schedule, declared President Knox, the League must act on his repeated request to be supplied with at least 2,000 armed men to put the Saar under virtual martial law while the vote is taken...
...Shirley Temple, as being manager of this bank's Santa Monica office. This is incorrect. Mr. Temple lives at Santa Monica but is in charge of California Bank's office at Washington Street and Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles, a district in which all the major motion picture companies maintain distributing offices. California Bank is one of the large local metropolitan banks with 55 offices in Los Angeles city and county, the Santa Monica office being situated in the outlying beach community of the same name...
...previous acreage control measures, we were immediately able to plant feed crops . . . and purchase . . . the herds of drought-stricken cattle. . . . Since there are 7,000,000 head of cattle in the country in excess of the number needed to maintain an adequate meat and milk supply, even this disaster is not unmanageable...
...Spirit of Locarno." Nine years ago at Locarno, Switzerland, gold pens squiggled in the hands of Benito Mussolini, Austen Chamberlain, and the late great peace men of France and Germany. Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann. Today the Locarno Treaty, still in full force, binds all the signatory powers to maintain unchanged the western frontier of Germany adjoining France and Belgium. The new scheme fathered by Comrade Litvinoff and M. Barthou is to fix the other frontiers of Germany by an Eastern Locarno. This scheme in embryonic verbal form was outlined to the Hitler Government by Comrade Litvinoff the last time...
...Germany, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Baltic States to sign an Eastern Locarno pact of "mutual assistance" pledging each other to maintain their present frontiers...