Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There newshawks chattered at the extended press tables. Capitol policemen in uniform circulated through the moving throng, trying to maintain order. A little knot of elderly financiers from Manhattan stood by themselves like new arrivals to be introduced at a large reception. And everywhere cameramen swarmed, climbed over one another, mounted chairs & tables, formed a living pyramid above half a dozen Senators who sat, all but lost from sight, at a long table at the end of the room...
...cotton processing tax brought trading in cotton textiles to a halt. Prices were cut but not enough to satisfy buyers, who insisted that quotations must fully reflect the saving in taxes. Tire makers, who have been paying some $20,000,000 annually in cotton processing taxes, hoped to maintain present prices, saving the tax for themselves...
...tubby, pudding-jowled Minority house Leader Bertrand Hollis ("Bert") Snell, which was also broadcast. Swelling with professional resentment at the President's extraordinary program, the New Yorker, who shepherds the forlorn 104 Republicans of the House, cried: "Why this departure from our former dignified practice? Does anyone maintain there is any special emergency whereby we should change the rules and precedents that have stood since the beginning of this Government? Is there going to be anything in that message that will not stand the light of the mid-day sun?" (Republican cheers, Democratic jeers.) Leader Snell, his duty done...
...Deep Water, Mo., Miss Swarthout has a Latin appearance well suited to a rigmarole about Spaniards in California and their efforts to hold their ancestral estates against early land-grabbers. Furthermore, the dual roles of Rosita Castro and Don Carlos, masked leader of the Spanish vigilantes, enable her to maintain a tradition which she inaugurated at the Metropolitan Opera as the page in Romeo and Juliet, of appearing in masculine costume. In other respects, Rose of the Rancho has more limited qualifications. Its story of how a U. S. Federal Agent (John Boles), dispatched to investigate the doings...
...Commonwealth), the Vice President, 17 Senators and 29 Representatives with their wives and children entrained for Washington. At Spokane Junketeer Garner, snugly installed in an upper berth, refused to come down for cameramen, bored deeper into his pillow. One canny photographer focused his camera, stood back, ventured : "I still maintain the only way to catch black bass is on a fly." Up popped a grinning Garner. "And I agree with you," said he. "Shoot...