Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When J. P. Morgan & Co. put the Van Sweringen rail and real estate empire on the auction block last fortnight, it was knocked down to Midamerica Corp., the Cleveland bachelors' new top holding company, for $3,121.000 (TIME, Oct. 7).* Though they are still well able to maintain checking accounts, Messrs. Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen needed help to buy back control of their vast possessions which had been taken over by the Morgan banking group for nonpayment of principal & interest on some $50,000,000 of notes. Last week Wall Street still buzzed with gossip about...
...testimonial to the good faith of the most important power in eastern waters. Not even the most ardent anti Japanese trouble maker in this country can help but be convinced by ambassador Saito's disarming array of facts that Japan's only and chief desire is to attain and maintain the friendship and good will of the world towards...
However, it is Professor Langer's belief that France is more opposed to war than perhaps any of the other nations involved, seeing that such an outbreak would mean the definito loss of at least one ally, whereas in peace she might be able to maintain both...
...change in American thought is startling. Instead of struggling to maintain our rights as neutrals, we are abrogating all such claims. Under the Neutrality Act passed in the last season of Congress, the course of action which the United States will follow differs in every respect from that of 1914-1917. A complete embargo on any articles employed in war will remove the American Merchant Marine from the necessity of defending itself. Henceforth American citizens will travel on Italian ships, (and on Ethiopian ships too) only at their own responsibility...
...policy thus placed in operation by President Roosevelt is the latest attempt in the form of neutrality legislation. The fact that experts have stated that it is the best under existing circumstances increases the danger that it may be considered sufficient to maintain American neutrality. It is impossible to overemphasize the fact that the Administration must be willing to sacrifice trade and other economic staples such as cotton and foods before the United States can insure itself peace in time...