Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wholesale cancellation was precisely what the sleek promoters of the air companies deserved; there is nothing to support the argument that some companies may be innocent and are consequently getting a raw deal. None of the members of that Jesse James guild had any more chance--or desire--to maintain their business integrity than a sailor landed in Scollay Square after six months at sea has of keeping himself physically inviolate; and it was only because some of the boys became disgruntled at having their snouts kept out of the public trough by their rivals that they...
...Royalists fail, the Republic will probably be able to maintain itself if only because it represents a compromise between the various warring political factions, and because, due to the growth in the centralization of authority, the government has a much firmer hold on the country than in any of the previous revolutions. Thus the present is not likely to give birth to any very radical movement--although hovering vaguely and almost unnoticed over the scene is the shadow of Fascism and dictatorship. NEMO
...adequate but undistinguished; the only performance which stands out is that of Oswald Yorke as Sir Miles Standing. He also had the one good line in the play; when told that he is suspected he exclaims in amazement, "I couldn't do that. I'm a conservative!" The sets maintain the standard of excellence which has distinguished most of the plays at the Plymouth this season...
...country rapidly disintegrating before his eyes. With the Heimwehr reported to be riddled with Nazi sympathizers, the Socialist party alienated, and the peasants supporting him only on account of the Church, Dollfuss apparently feels that his domestic position has become so unstable that if he is to maintain his government against the ever increasing violence of Nazi propaganda, he must have more than the moral backing of the other powers. According to dispatches from Vienna he has decided to appeal to the League tomorrow and ask that Article XI, paragraph 2, be invoked against Germany. That the League itself would...
...importance for the London Economic Conference: monetary stabilization and the return of all currencies to a common standard which the United States cannot conceive of as other than gold. I replied that Italy had no need to stabilize, as she had already stabilized on Dec. 21, 1927, and had maintained and intended to maintain that stabilization unaltered; and that Italy had no need to return to a gold parity because she had placed her currency on a gold basis. I added that whatever other countries might do, Italy would not deviate from the policies laid down by the Duce...