Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory of the British Foreign Office that if it is to be prevented, by the Monroe Doctrine, from following its normal policy in dealing with backward countries in such affairs, then the least the U. S. can do is to see to it that the natives maintain a decent regard for Anglo-Saxon property rights...
...Great Britain, France, The Netherlands and Belgium. Meanwhile, before details of the plan had been worked out and before the State Department had explained precisely what the committee would be expected to accomplish, Franklin Roosevelt told a Warm Springs, Ga. press conference that he hoped the U. S. would maintain its 150-year-old tradition by becoming an asylum for political refugees not only from Germany and Austria but from Russia, Italy and Spain as well. Whether or not his invitation included such refugees as Leon Trotsky, currently exiled in Mexico, the President...
...controlled by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry.) announced that this month it would begin operating 50 completely air-conditioned busses between Chicago and points west to Los Angeles. The new busses, square-fronted and streamlined, have separate four-cylinder engines to operate the cooling and air conditioning mechanisms, maintain a constant temperature of 65°. Cost: $17,200 each...
...From the beginning of its activities 25 years ago the Foundation has been guided by the objective written into its charter: 'the well-being of mankind throughout the world.' In accordance with this purpose the aim of the trustees has been to maintain the work of the Foundation on an international plane without consideration of flags or political doctrines or creeds or sects. . . . We are all of us, under whatever flag, the joint beneficiaries of the intellectual property of the race...
...Philadelphia's General Hospital and Chicago's Cook County Hospital maintain free blood banks, replenished by relatives and friends of patients who received transfusions. Manhattan's Bellevue and Brooklyn's Kings County hospitals start similar free banks next week...