Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...situation as it has developed it appears necessary for the executive to proceed. ... It is clear that ordinary diplomatic agencies are not suitable for the conduct of negotiations. . . . We must honor the request for discussion [of debts] by nations who have sought to maintain their obligations to us. ... The discussion of debts is necessarily connected with the solution of the major problems at the World Economic Conference and the Arms Conference. . . . The ideal way therefore would seem to be that some of our representatives should be selected at once who can perform both these functions of preparing for the World...
...last week it became known that King Albert, always a major factor in Belgian crises, recently consulted famed French Economist Francis Delaisi and said pensively to him at their last conference in the Royal Palace: "I am profoundly convinced that our civilization is at a turning point. Can we maintain it as it has been? That is the problem which haunts me day and night. Do you know, M. Delaisi, I find myself strangely preoccupied by what is going on in Russia. Is it the end of all civilization which is being prepared there? Or is it a new order...
...College. Mostly from the Middle West come some 30,000 visitors a year to brave a temperature of 10° above zero, stare at the fish. Retaining live form and color in their ice blocks, the fish stare back with more than living fishiness. Seattle pays almost nothing to maintain the exhibit, charges no admission. The collection ranges from a shrimp to an 831-lb. sea lion. Some are common denizens of the Puget Sound region. Rarest are the snipe eel, lantern fish, lancet fish, sprakler, highbrow, and Willoughby's ragfish...
...extraordinary that he should come to us." Mr. Young told Counsel Jacobson that no questions were asked because "knowing Mr. Insull as you do . . . and bearing in mind that he had offered a note with a collateral margin of 40% which he offered to maintain and in addition endorsed the note personally, you will understand that I, as chairman of the General Electric, would not have asked Mr. Insull what he was going to do with the money." "Didn't you know by February 1932, that Samuel Insull was financially irresponsible?" asked Counsel Jacobson...
...tied up its bottle caps with unemployment relief. It announced that a special 2? stamp tax would be placed on all Yahrzeit lamps, and a graded tax from 1? to 10? on all ritual candles. The proceeds will go to the New York Yeshivoth and Talmud Torah funds, which maintain Jewish parochial schools and rabbinical academies in the city...