Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Party is virtually split. One section supports free trade; the other a vague protectionist policy. The latter is headed by Premier Baldwin and is committed by the Bonar Law pledge to a general election. The former contains such men as Lords Derby, Robert Cecil, Salisbury, who are anxious to maintain the Administration until after the passage of the House of Lords Re-form Bill, which has been the morceau choisi of the Conservative Party for years. This Bill is designed by the Conservatives to increase the power of the Lords...
...banks from establishing branches was taken in connection with only national banks; by a ruling of the Attorney General new branches were forbidden, although most existing branches, especially in New York City, were left undisturbed. The national banks, however, protested that competing banks organized under the state laws could maintain branches, and that the national banks were thereby put at a disadvantage...
...fellow undergraduates. While as far as the faculty are concerned (being mostly reasonable men) all they are likey to demand in addition--since fortunately the University is no longer fettered by that rather unpleasant creed to which our worthy Founder subscribed--is that Catholics, in common with other people, maintain the required standards of scholarship and discipline. As for Catholic students having "banded together," and having "even a club", I fail to discern that it is one iota more sinister than the activities of the Masonic Club, or of the Menorah Society for that matter...
...expressed. Some were im pressed with the maneuver chiefly as a drive against the "short interest," which was believed to be large. Others pointed out that 1924 was a Presidential year, that the Party in power might show more than verbal gratitude to anyone who could prevent depression and maintain prosperity at least until after election day. A third school maintained that large interests wished to stir up a good market in order to liquidate securities likely to decline further next year. All agreed, how ever, that, if manipulation was responsible, it was no "piker's game," that substantial financial...
...paper of newspaperdom, took an attitude which moved editors to defend their correspondents. Herbert Bayard Swope, Executive Editor of The New York World, led the editors, ejaculating: "One would think . . . that America lacked trained observers in Europe and elsewhere! Surely ... a false impression! All of the great American newspapers maintain groups of able correspondents abroad, who are thoroughly equipped to do the job, as best it can be done. . . . These writers are, primarily, collectors of facts. The interpretations placed upon their expositions are made by men schooled in that branch of journalism-editorial writers." The Detroit Free Press was drawn...