Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler turned 47 last week. On ordinary days the Realmleader has come to maintain a worshipful wall around himself against even the biggest of the Nazi bigwigs. On his birthday, however, he welcomed them all at the Berlin Chancellery, glowed under their congratulations, revived Kaiser Wilhelm's practice of birthday honors...
...Deal nay-sayers-Frank Richardson Kent, Mark Sullivan & David Lawrence. Smarting under the President's smiling sarcasms as sorely as the President smarts under the unsympathetic reports they write about his Administration, Columnists Kent, Sullivan & Lawrence now fail to appear at White House Press conferences or maintain a dignified silence when Mr. Roosevelt talks to reporters. Not until last week, however, was a public issue made of the breach between President and press critics...
...interesting commentary on the bill is the fact that it includes the following interesting phrase: "Whereas, Harvard University endeavors to foster and maintain the ideals of truth and freedom so dear to America . . ." It should impart a pleasing glow to the heart of every Harvard man to know that the Senate of the United States does not consider his university a hot-bed of red agitation, even if the Massachusetts legislature does. We refer the representative from Dorchester to Messrs Roosevelt, Garner, and Byrns, who are choosing the commission, for a certificate of Harvard's virtue...
...become his job, went on to other tasks. In 1933 he formed the Council of State Governments, with the idea that each State should at least contribute "a stenographer's salary" ($1,000 to $5,000 a year depending on the size of the State) to maintain an organization for interstate cooperation. Only nine states so far are paying members of it, but last week at the Shoreland Hotel near the University of Chicago, 86 representatives of 33 states assembled to put a new piece of the Council's governmental machinery in motion...
...general unrest in the maritime labor field is a matter of common knowledge. Conditions under which so-called able seamen and lifeboat men certificates are issued are known to make possible, if not encourage, flagrant fraud. How can we . . . hope that underpaid, overworked officers will be able to maintain real discipline...