Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicago's high-spirited Tribune, having announced that it will no longer maintain a correspondent in Rome to "take government handouts" (TIME, June 24), last week obtained from Correspondent Will Barber in Djibouti, French Somaliland, a lurid account of what goes on in neighboring Italian Eritrea as the Dictator's forces get ready to fight after the summer rains...
...bonds." As an example of how the Government could save money, Old Takahashi pleaded with the fighting services to respond to long standing Soviet proposals for a Russo-Japanese peace pact which would permit the two great powers to demobilize nearly 2,000,000 troops which they now maintain to defend their common frontier. As further proof that Japan's economy is being severely pinched, Fiscal Wizard Takahashi pointed to recent declines in Japanese common stocks of even the most popular munitions companies...
...pest! Unfortunately, there have been times when the poisonous dart lay ready to our tongue at the needful moment, and we have loosed it sharp and straight at some man's folly-but it hit his heart. It struck in those mysterious depths where each man tries to maintain a little shy and secret self-respect...
Meanwhile II Duce had not expelled, nor was he likely to expel the most experienced handout accepter in all Rome, New York Times Correspondent Arnaldo Cortesi. Instead Dictator Mussolini barred from Italy for an indefinite period the New York Times, which continued to maintain Mr. Cortesi in Rome, printed a column from him on the subject of Mr. Darrah's expulsion...
...Passage of a new law to require the Government to purchase everything it buys exclusively from firms that maintain high wages, low hours and do not employ child labor. Such purchases account for about 1%, of industrial business...