Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...community, the principle that no individual man, woman or child has a right to do things that hurt their neighbors. . . . In the old days it was unfair to our neighbors to allow our cattle to roam on their land. When we got into great cities it became unfair to maintain a pigsty on Main Street. It became unfair to our neighbors if we sought to make unfair profits from monopolies in things that everybody had to use. . . . It was not fair to our neighbors to let anybody hire their children when they were little bits of things...
...great exporting countries-Canada, U. S., Australia, Argentina-had been drawn up early in the summer by U. S. Delegate Henry Morgenthau (TIME, July 3 et seq.). Now the wheat importing nations seemed to be doing everything possible to wreck it by insisting on their rights to maintain quota restrictions and subsidies for their farmers. Suddenly came the miracle. An international conference actually agreed to do something, accomplished something, was ready to sign something, all within five days. Delegates of the four exporting countries agreed to limit their combined wheat exports for 1933-34 to 560,000,000 bushels...
Despite the rising tide of course work and the increased demands of athletic coaches on the undergraduate's time and energy, outside activities maintain their particular appeal to the student who looks for something more than 16 C's and a pass in Freshman physical education out of his four years in college...
...appears that his scale of living or the total of his bank deposits far exceeds his public salary, he owes a positive public duty to the community to give a reasonable or credible explanation of the sources of the deposits or the source which enables him to maintain the scale of living beyond the amount of his salary." The Federal administration to date has given the Kelly administration little or no patronage. Carter Harrison, longtime Mayor, son of the 1893 World's Fair Mayor, was made a Collector of Internal Revenue over the Cermak-Kelly candidate for that...
...five shillings the copy, it became a bestseller, the only Blue Book ever published by the British Government which netted a profit. Coming out in 1931 it declared: "Our objectives should be ... first of all to raise prices a long way above the present level and then to maintain them at the level thus reached with as much stability as can be managed.'' It discussed (and rejected) devaluation of currencies; it advocated reducing the legal gold reserves of central banks-all this two years before the U.S. began to consider such proposals. In England Premier Bennett induced...