Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Despite brave announcements from the New York office that the strike would not affect sailings of the Holland America Line, neither the Rotterdam nor the Volendam was able to leave her home port last week. A government commission announced that it could settle the strike if owners agreed to maintain the present wage scale until March. Only five companies agreed...
...Rome last week Signer Achille Starace, abrupt Secretary General of the Fascist Party, ordered that "to maintain the dignity of Fascist customs" the Official shout will no longer be given "except when saluting II Duce." Lesser Fascist leaders will receive silent salutes, out-stretchings of the right arm at an upward inclination...
...that every human led a happy life of action regulated by reason. Every inhabitant would do his proper share of work (the Soviet intention). For proof that Society could thus be run he suggested that Parliament should "found an experimental, voluntary, selfsupporting colony . . . of say 100,000 persons to maintain themselves and continually to increase their wealth when freed from the restraints and social errors of modern civilization." As a site for the experiment he suggested "one of the States of North America," or France...
...individual member is assured full medical attention. The $3.50 takes care of an entire family. There are two great divisions among the clubs?the Spanish and the Cuban. The Cuban are strictly mutual benefit societies, admit only those who cannot afford to pay for private attention. The Spanish clubs maintain great social halls and schools. They resemble U. S. fraternal societies like the Moose...
Canada's proposal contained four offers and a stipulation. Offers: 1) to maintain existing free lists in respect to Britain and to increase their value by imposing against foreign countries duties on products at present free to all; 2) to place on the free list with Britain many articles in which Britain competes with other countries, maintaining the duties against the other countries; 3) to increase the preferential spread in Britain's favor by a) lowering the present preferential duties paid by British commodities or b) by increasing the duties paid by foreign commodities, or both...