Word: maintainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...require all local unions to join appropriate city central bodies and State federations (membership in which has heretofore only been recommended). Reason for this move was to maintain A. F. of L. control and prevent locals being "stolen...
What galled unofficial Italian observers most about Spain's White Book was not the evidence of Italian intervention, but the startling evidence of cowardice and continued poor morale in the ranks of Italian volunteers. Wrote the Italian volunteers' divisional commander. General Mancini, on March 11: "Commanders must maintain their men in the highest state of exaltation. . . . This will be easy if they are talked to frequently without ever omitting on any subject a political allusion and always evoking in the soldiers' minds II Duce...
...difficult key post of Minister of the Interior (controlling the national police force and secret service) Dr. Negrin chose young, forceful Basque Socialist Julian Zugazagoita who announced that he would maintain internal order with a rod of iron. A weaker spot in the new Cabinet was in the Foreign Ministry. Julio Alvarez del Vayo, who during the Civil War has acquired the distinction of being one of Europe's most brilliant foreign ministers, had to be replaced because he is inextricably linked with former Premier Largo Caballero. The newly appointed Foreign Minister, Left Republican José Giral Pereira, though...
Until this year, most U. S. Cup yachts were built not by single individuals but by syndicates. The Sopwith system is not to build single yachts but to maintain a flotilla. Towing Endeavour I to the U. S. is the motor yacht Viva II, owned by his friend Frederick Segrist, who will help foot Endeavour I's bills. Towing Endeavour II is the Belgian trawler John. Owner Sopwith disapproves of U. S. food, so John is bringing enough British victuals (except fresh vegetables and bread) to last all summer. The two Endeavours, Viva and John are by no means...
Until war becomes inescapable, or the Dictators turn and rend each other, let democrats of good will learn "how not to behave in a crisis of representative government . . . remembering how much it is in the interest of every democracy that every other democracy be strong and prosperous enough to maintain its existing form of government. . . . Even sentimental manifestations of solidarity count...