Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the six economists commissioned by the Twentieth Century Fund this week to formulate proposals for broad economic measures to achieve and maintain general prosperity in the post-war United States are three from Harvard...
...where, not altogether fortunately, it sets a sort of standard. . . . There are few composers whose music will not pall when an entire long program is made exclusively of it; and Mile. Chaminade is not one of these. . . . But apart from all this, Mile. Chaminade is an artist who can maintain a certain position of her own through her own powers and achievements...
...stalwart, Senator Claude Pepper, had been having great difficulty in his primary race for reelection. Now, liberal or no liberal, he hopped nimbly on the bandwagon: "The South will allow nothing to impair white supremacy." Said Louisiana's Senator John H. Overton: "The South, at all costs, will maintain the rule of white supremacy." And a desperate call to arms came from another candidate for reelection: Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith of South Carolina. He told his constituents: "All those who love South Carolina and the white man's rule will rally in this hour...
Lord Catto knows that his country faces profound difficulties. Burdened by debt, faced with the loss of revenues from overseas investment and shipping, faced too with the problems of a Europe in reconstruction, postwar Britain must inevitably maintain all manner of exchange and trade controls for the short run. The temptation will be to let these controls become permanent-to try to enter into a whole series of bilateral "deals" of the Schachtian variety with Europe, with South America, and within the Empire...
Argentina's Brigadier General Luis Cesar Perlinger, eagle-beaked, supernationalist Minister of the Interior, swung a haymaker at able U.S. Ambassador Norman Armour. Said Perlinger: "It is not possible to smile at an Ambassador of a country which does not maintain relations with the owner of the house. I am the first to assume an angry face toward such a man, and every Argentine must do the same...