Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never inclined to bother much about Siam's frequent revolutions which thus far have never been against his Crown, easy-going King Prajadhipok bade his countrymen farewell: "May my people maintain peace and unity during my absence, which is necessitated by reasons of health...
President Blumenthal will have under his control an institution which last year spent $1,450,000 to maintain itself, owns 2,182 oil paintings including one Hubert van Eyck diptych, 25 Rembrandts, two Velasquez', four El Grecos, two Giovanni Bellinis, six Cézannes, seven Whistlers and the originals of "Washington Crossing the Delaware" and "The Horse Fair...
...most touching tributes to the high ideals which American women maintain was demonstrated yesterday in New York at a meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Under the leadership of their world president, Mrs. Ella A. Boole, who looked charming in a subdued black silk dress and a black hat with the white badge of the organization affixed to her shoulder, these courageous women planned a new crusade to root out the many evils which have flocked in with the Democrats and the Depression. Chief among these, of course, is the return of the nefarious liquor traffic...
...House of Representatives committee on coinage yesterday that the devaluation of the dollar could not possibly have any beneficial effects, unless it meant that in the near future there would be no more monetary experiments. He declared that the purpose of France's revaluation of the franc was to maintain the price level that was then obtained, not to cause an increase in prices...
...prefer to consider our relations with Russia in as simple a light as possible, instead of trying to make them a complicated affair. There is nothing very complex in trying to maintain friendly relations with one's neighbors, which is essentially the administration's purpose in making the move...