Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holder at the side of her mouth. Mrs. Roosevelt operates Val-Kill shops, an enterprise which manufactures antique reproductions at Hyde Park. This is a non-profit concern. In the past five years Mrs. Roosevelt has picked up some $25,000 from endorsements, radio talks and writing. The Roosevelts maintain a summer place at Campobello. New Brunswick, another country place at Warm Springs, Ga., and their Manhattan town house. Hyde Park belongs to the President's mother, as does the Roosevelt fortune. The Franklin Roosevelts are not rich. It therefore behooves Mrs. Roosevelt to live in the White House...
Still riding high, War Minister Sadao Araki last week canceled previously announced plans to reduce the number of Japanese troops in Manchukuo to a "peace time basis." Instead, more troops will be sent, the excuse being that Soviet Russia continues to maintain the large forces she established behind her frontier when Japan occupied Manchukuo and seized most of the half-Soviet-owned Chinese Eastern Railway which serves the northern part of Manchukuo...
...rubber animals which measure up to forty feet in length and twenty feet in height. Owing to the fact that the balloon creatures are inflated with gas and are of such magnitude, it is expected that a number of Harvard men will guard each animal in an attempt to maintain its state of captivity...
After two days of severe fighting marked by heavy loss of life, President Grau San Martin of Cuba has managed to maintain his quavering regime and crush the revolution engineered by the ABC and the supporters of de Cespedes. Unfortunately, this does not mean that the anarchic conditions prevailing in Cuba are at an end, for the San Martin government is still highly unstable, and many of the causes of the present situation are directly traceable to the attitude of the United States...
...Doctrine, which gained for its originator the soubriquet of "Wrong horse Harry," and applied it to Cuba. The effect of this has been to make any real stability in that country impossible, for nonrecognition according to the Doctrine carries a tacit implication of disapproval. Any government that attempts to maintain itself in the shadow of American condemnation leads a precarious existence indeed, for our political influence is enormous, and the size and importance of our economic stake was revealed in the ingenuous confessions of Mr. Wiggin, Mr. Lamont, Mr. Morgan and company...